Idealist Quotes

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

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

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

No one more cynical than an idealist.

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).

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

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

God save me from idealists.

Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

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.

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

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

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

I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

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

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

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

I wince at her use of the word "human." I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.

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

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

How many people in the pews know that [ Jonathan Edwards] is both a founder of evangelicalism and, say, an idealist who denied that the material world exists?

This world is filled with critics already

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

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

I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

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

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.