Best 226 quotes in «idealism quotes» category

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Idealism has devolved into madness.

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

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

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.

Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

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

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

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

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare

Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

The opposite of compromise is not integrity. The opposite of compromise is not idealism. The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

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

The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

We have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i.e., that we know nothing more than our own representations.

And it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were - and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings anymore.

When we lose love, we lose also our identification with the universe and with eternal values--an identification which alone makesit possible for us to lay our lives on the altar for what we believe.

Wishes are recollections coming from the future.

Always carry what is beautiful in your heart.

We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism.

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