Idealist Quotes

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

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

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

I'm a cynical idealist.

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

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

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

Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

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.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

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

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive

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

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

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

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

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

No one more cynical than an idealist.

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

Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

God save me from idealists.

Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.

There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'

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).

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.

I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.