Ability Quote by Karl Kraus

“Idealism is the cradle for change. One cannot make something new without first envisioning the possibility.”

— Molly Collier

Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart…

— Dan B. Allender

We talk of lost ideals, but perhaps they are not lost, only changed; when our ideal for ourselves and for our children becomes limited…

— Charlotte Mason

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

— Robert Hass

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

— Bertrand Russell

Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new…

— Samuel Johnson

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

— Garrison Keillor

The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.

— Johan Huizinga

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best…

— Ellen Glasgow