Best 34 quotes in «idealist quotes» category

Every high ideal appears utopian to the ordinary masses, until they see it manifesting in front of their own eyes.

Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist fails to understand the limitation of his idea and believes that the real world can be converted into the world of his idea.

I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.

If the throne changes hands, we will be invaded. My son is an idealist. Idealists make great leaders, but they never make good rulers. So I'll tell you what I believe, Amani. I believe that if my son's rebellion were ever to succeed, or even gain enough of a foothold to cast doubt upon my rule, we would be torn to shreds by foreign powers. It would destroy Miraji, just like my father would have destroyed it before us. - The Sultan

If I wasn't idealistic, there wouldn't be anything worth fighting for.

I know that if you spend enough on each person person in a village, you will change their lives. If you put in enough resources-enough mzungu,foreigners, technical assistance, and money-lives change. I know that....The problem is, when you walk, what happens? -Simon Bland

Isana stared at Gaius for a moment. Then she said, "How can you live with yourself?" The First Lord stared at her for a moment, his eyes cold. Then he spoke in a very quiet, precise, measured voice. "I look out my window each day. I look out my window at people who live and breathe. At people who have not been devoured by civil war. At people who have not been ravaged by disease. At people who have not starved to death, who have not been hacked apart by enemies of humanity, at people who are free to lie and steal and plot and complain and accuse and behave in all manner of repugnant ways because the Realm stands. Because law and order stands. Because something other than simple violence shapes the course of their lives. And I look, wife of my son, mother of my heir, at a very few decent people who have had the luxury of living their lives without being called upon to make hideous decisions I would not wish upon my worst enemies, and who consequently find such matters morally appalling when they consider them--because they have not had to be the ones who dealt with them." He took a short, hard swallow of wine. "Feh. Aquitaine thinks me his enemy. The fool. If I truly hated him, I'd give him the Crown.

You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned to death. He makes the others so uncomfortable. He haunts them at their golf.

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.

What can we do? We cannot enforce. We try to explain. We want to empower. But no one can come and change them if they do not want themselves -Ahmed Maalim Mohamed

To put a dreamer in their place isn’t dreaming.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

God save me from idealists.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.

I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.

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

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

The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.

Any discussion between idealist and realist would never end.

America: A place where Realists have the freedom to be Idealists.

At twenty, if you are not an idealist, then you don't have a heart. And if you continue being an idealist at forty, then you don't have a brain.