Believe Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“I'm a cynical idealist.' He paused and wondered if that meant anything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I asked her ones:why don't you think of a goal for your life? she said: how can I when my goal in life is…

— Anonymous

“Do you ever think you're being an idealist? Do you ever wonder if you're holding out for something that doesn't exist? I'm not being…

— Karyn Bosnak

“You’re really asking me a different question,” she said. “You’re asking, how can I abandon you? You’re asking, aren’t I concerned with your affairs…

— Lee Child

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

— Brent Weeks

“It might not even be that great to marry your ideal. Probably, once you attained your ideal, you got bored and wanted another.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“You can't believe because she tells you to," I said "No. The question is: how to be a good person if I don't believe…

— E. Lockhart

“I want people to come away from my book with questions," she says. "Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.”

— Veronica Roth

“Have you asked the question yet? I'm rather good at it, if I do say to myself. I got three different ladies to agree…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“You know that inside every cynic, there’s just a very disappointed idealist?”

— Roe Horvat

“So many questions. Could she not think about what the answers might be before asking?”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now…

— Antonia Michaelis