1.
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Friedrich Nietzsche
3.
I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.
Soe Hok Gie
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Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
Madeleine Albright
7.
Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
Sarah Vowell
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I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.
Arthur Scargill
9.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
Woodrow Wilson
10.
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.
Alfred Nobel
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I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Roger Moore
12.
The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.
Wu Guoguang
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The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive
John Zorn
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I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
Brit Marling
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I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
Hillary Clinton
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Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.
Simon Sinek
19.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Alain de Botton
21.
Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.
Ariel Rechtshaid
22.
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
Kristin Hannah
23.
An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
Amy Ray
24.
She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.
Isaac Marion
25.
There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'
Ronald Reagan
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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).
Shane Claiborne
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Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
Susan Wiggs
30.
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
Amos Oz
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No one more cynical than an idealist.
Tanith Lee
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I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs.
Carl Sandburg
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Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson