Idealist Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idealist Life Men
Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist fails to… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
. . . idealism is one of the greatest forces in the world. It makes seeming impossibilities possible and succeeds where prudence fails. But… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes the others… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned. — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
What is Southern California but an ever-changing dreamscape backdrop for the postmodern ideal? The psychology of the postmodern world is the continual state of… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course. — Larry Osborne Copy Share Image
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
