Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
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.
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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