Idealism Quote by Ian McEwan

“...I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...”

— John Geddes

“It is vain to try to sacrifice once for all one's youthful ideals.”

— Paul Bourget

“Idealists mature badly. If they can’t outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind.”

— Brent Weeks

“What young brains lack in experience they sometimes make up for in idealism. Nothing seems impossible to them.”

— Suzanne Collins

“There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should. As it has ever been.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Ideals are replaced by conventional goals at a certain age.”

— Jenny Holzer

“There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for everything to be as it should.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“When we are young we love our idealization of people, I suppose, and only as we grow older do we love them as they…

— Margaret Campbell Barnes

“In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.”

— Daniel Prokop

“Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?”

— Friedrich von Schiller

“she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Belief in an ideal dies hard. I had believed in an ideal for all the twenty-eight years of my life – the ideal of…

— E.R. Braithwaite