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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.
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.
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.
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
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
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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.
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.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive
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