Quote by John F. Kennedy

“Arthur Schlesinger admits that JFK "succumbed to the fake omniscience of insiders". Prolonged immersion in the self-contained, self-justifying world of clandestinity and deception erodes…

— Garry Wills

“Centuries and centuries of idealism have not failed to influence reality”

— Jorge Luis Borges

I'm an idealist without illusions.

— John F. Kennedy

“I am an idealist who believes in reality, and who, therefore, in all i write strive to be real, to keep both my own…

— Jack London

“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

“We project an illusion of our ideals instead of seeing other people as they really are.”

— Jocelyn Soriano

“Ideals are like an image of reality at a given time from a given reality. Just like no photograph of a person can truly…

— Awdhesh Singh

“Someone said that revolutions are begun by idealists and ended by the scoundrels who destroy the idealists.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Kafka was a realist”

— Georg Lukacs

“The world if full of illusions that are forced upon one's reality.”

— Steven Redhead

“Idealism, however impractical, gives a meaning to our existence.”

— Anirban Bose

The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was…

— Howard Stringer