Best Idealism Quotations
246 Idealism quotes by 197 unique authors
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I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here…
— Michael Arditti
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Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.
— Anne Lamott
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Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
— John Wooden
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I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of…
— Barry Goldwater
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Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and…
— Immanuel Kant
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America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality…
— Alistair Cooke
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Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun,…
— Richard Stallman
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A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they…
— John Steinbeck
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This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise for every truly…
— Adolf Hitler
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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for…
— Willa Cather
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
— Phillips Brooks
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The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant…
— Raymond Chandler
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as…
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
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The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This…
— Josiah Royce
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Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own…
— William Irwin Thompson
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Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.
— Danny Strong
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The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very…
— Howard Stringer
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