Discourage Quote by Stephen Kinzer

Idealism doesn't prevent problems.

— Amy Morin

We're all idealistic when young.

— Pat Oliphant

The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

— Sargent Shriver

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have…

— Charles Kennedy

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

— Agnes Meyer Driscoll

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

— Brent Weeks

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

— Jenny Holzer

Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.

— Nellie L. McClung

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

— Arthur Scargill

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

— Fanny Burney

“So much for youthful idealism.”

— Ian McEwan

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