Idealist Quotes

132 quotes by 116 authors

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. — Irving Babbitt
I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were… — Michele Bachmann
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table,… — Geraldine Brooks
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives. — Joyce Brothers
Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this… — Madeleine Albright
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. — Hillary Clinton
The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide. — Wu Guoguang
The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever… — Adolf Hitler
War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics. — Chris Hedges
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. — Woodrow Wilson
Idealist: a cynic in the making. — Irving Layton
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. — Malcolm De Chazal
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality… — Ayn Rand
There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will… — Hal Borland
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker… — Henry Miller
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but there's often a shortage of discipline. — Scott Belsky

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