“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.” — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline. — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist. — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself. — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university,… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist fighting for peace by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs; activism… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
“The Platonic idealist is the man by nature so wedded to perfection that he sees in everything not the reality but the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything… — Saad Hariri Copy Share Image
How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I wanted to do journalism, as I was an idealist. Then, in my second year of journalism, I realized that in real… — Nithya Menen Copy Share Image
All of Robert Caro's biographies are exceptional, in part because of Caro's fundamental ambivalence about power. He sees its necessity and use… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Scratch the surface of any cynic, and you will find a wounded idealist underneath. Because of previous pain or disappointment, cynics make… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers --… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody… — James Jones Copy Share Image
Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am. — Ariel Rechtshaid Copy Share Image
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Which is more remarkable fact about America: that millionaires are idealists or idealists become millionaires. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. Carl Sandburg — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned. — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“You know that inside every cynic, there’s just a very disappointed idealist?” — Roe Horvat Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist without illusions. [Ca. 1953, attributed to John F. Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 'A Thousand Days' ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
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