Idealist Quotes

132 quotes by 114 authors

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter… — Moses Mendelssohn
Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...' — Bob Woodward
I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up… — Richard Branson
If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for… — Robert Higgs
World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the… — Don Williams
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In a… — Sasha Cagen
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. — Hugh Jackman
Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens. — Simon Sinek
The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out… — Ken Wilber
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly… — Aleister Crowley
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. — Swami Vivekananda
Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic. — Seth Godin
Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others… — Alan Dershowitz
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire… — Warren W. Wiersbe
I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an… — Charlton Heston
None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic,… — Barack Obama
An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical. — Amy Ray
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned. — Susan Wiggs
I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist. — Soe Hok Gie
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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