Idealist Quotes · Page 4

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real…

— Robert Penn Warren

I have the heart of an idealist, and the thick skin of a realist.

— Anonymous

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

— Anonymous

All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.

— Josh Lanyon

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

— Larry Osborne

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet…

— Shane Claiborne

I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.

— Ariel Rechtshaid

Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup

— Henry Louis Mencken

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made…

— Roméo Dallaire

What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual…

— John Van Hamersveld

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because…

— Neil Peart

I wince at her use of the word "human." I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're…

— Isaac Marion

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity,…

— William McFee

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and…

— Jurgen Moltmann

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I…

— Mary Doria Russell

Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize…

— Elizabeth Gould Davis

One way of saying that is that there is an objective reality beyond our mind. A way to think of this in…

— Edgar Mitchell

When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist,…

— Thomas Huxley

An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture, whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist,…

— Felix Adler

You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a…

— David James Duncan

Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me -…

— George Carlin

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

— Simon Sinek

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

— Anonymous

I'm an idealist. You do things your way well enough, for long enough, you'll get rewarded.

— Sami Zayn

I'm an idealist. I'll die an idealist in the theater. I'll stick to my convictions if I starve to death.

— Agnes Moorehead

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

— Sun Yat-sen

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.

— Sargent Shriver

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

— Bob Woodward

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

— Anonymous

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

— Arthur Scargill

There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'

— Ronald Reagan

I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.

— Carl Sandburg

I am an idealist. I believe in everything — I am only looking for proofs.

— Carl Sandburg

“If I wasn't idealistic, there wouldn't be anything worth fighting for.”

— Mik Everett

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now…

— Ellen Glasgow

None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind…

— Barack Obama