Idealist Quotes

132 quotes by 114 authors

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
God save me from idealists. — Jim Butcher
I'm a cynical idealist. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists. — Patricia C. Wrede
They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall. — Josh Lanyon
Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. — Jonathan Franzen
God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll… — Mary Doria Russell
I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The… — Jonathan Kozol
Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered… — James Jones
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist. — Kristin Hannah
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards. — Alain de Botton
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. — Friedrich August von Hayek
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 both human. Call… — Isaac Marion
She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist. — Isaac Marion
The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all… — Chinua Achebe
It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we… — Lorraine Hansberry
The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work. — Richard M. Nixon
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. — Albert Camus
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. — Lorraine Hansberry

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