Quotes of Idealism - somelinesforyou

“ I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ”

- David T. Wolf

“ An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. ”

- Henry Ford

“ When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ”

- Robert Anton Wilson

“ An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ The enemy of idealism is zealotry. ”

- Neil Kinnock

“ No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. ”

- Mikhail Bakunin

“ Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. ”

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

“ Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ”

- John Galsworthy

“ Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ”

- David T. Wolf

“ Ideals are the world's masters. ”

- Josiah Gilbert Holland

“ Our ideals are our better selves. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ”

- Sidney J. Harris

“ A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.'. ”

- Henry Ford

“ When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. ”

- Stanley Baldwin

“ Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ”

- Robert Anton Wilson

“ A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. ”

- Vilayat Inayat Khan

“ If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. ”

- Albert Camus

“ The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. ”

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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