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Idealists are either blind or clowns; because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist. — H.L. Mencken

I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist. — Soe Hok Gie

Americans ... are the most idealistic people in the whole world. Their only danger is that the idealist can easily become the idolator. — G.K. Chesterton

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. — Irving Babbitt

A pragmatic person sees the dark and the light side of life, while an
idealist sees a life filled with colors. — Eraldo Banovac

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist. — Neil Peart

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin

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. — Charlton Heston

I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am. — Ariel Rechtshaid

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all born idealists, until life fucks us all. — M.F. Moonzajer

all idealist philosophies devour their own feet without realizing it. — Etienne Gilson

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

... a cynic is only a term used by an idealist to describe a realist. — Jonathan Lynn & Anthony Jay

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

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

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work. — Richard M. Nixon

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. — Eric Hoffer

Disarming an idealist was easy — Viet Thanh Nguyen

A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned. — Warren W. Wiersbe

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

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

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. — Woodrow Wilson

To put a dreamer in their place isn't dreaming. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I am an idealist. I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs. — Carl Sandburg

He was a militant idealist who crusaded against racial bigotry by growing faint in its presence. — Joseph Heller

Idealists are not the good friends of the truths; they create their own truth. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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. — Isaac Marion

It's easy to be a naive idealist. It's easy to be a cynical realist. It's quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

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

No one more cynical than an idealist. — Tanith Lee

And try to remember how to be an idealist. — Carrie Vaughn

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

Every true heart needed a pragmatic counterweight, and every cynic an idealist to lift his spirits. — Neal Stephenson

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

A cynic is a frustrated idealist. — Al Ruksenas

I am an idealist, which can be tiring. — Hussein Chalayan

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

The idealist regards facts as provisional. — Mason Cooley

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. — Sudha Murty

Idealist: a cynic in the making. — Irving Layton

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

The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes. — Bauvard

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

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal ... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. — Agnes Martin

Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision — Rick Bayan

I am a mixture of idealist and realist. — Roger Moore

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. — Henry Ford

an idealist is a hypocrite, because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way. — Carl Sandburg

I'm an idealist without illusions. — John F. Kennedy

I'm an idealist
who has outgrown
my idealism
I have nothing to do
the rest of my life
but do it
and the rest of my life
to do it — Jack Kerouac

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. — Albert Camus

Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. — Sargent Shriver

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

When it comes down to it, Matthew was just another disillusioned idealist, an over-reactive Hamlet type--couldn't take it that the world was real. — Graham Swift

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

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

I'm a cynical idealist.' He paused and wondered if that meant anything. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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. — R.A. Salvatore

Scratch a cynic and you'll find a disappointed idealist. — Jon F. Merz

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

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one. — Honeysuckle Weeks

There aren't many idealists in politics. — Evelyn Anthony

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist - someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations. — Peter M. Senge

I'm an idealist without illusions.
[Ca. 1953, attributed to John F. Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. in 'A Thousand Days' — John F. Kennedy

An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical. — Amy Ray

An idealist. The most dangerous kind of man there was. And — James S.A. Corey

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

I'm an idealist. — Bobby Cannavale

Any discussion between idealist and realist would never end. — Toba Beta

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. — H.L. Mencken

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I am a poor idealist. I am a victim of illusions. He laughed. — Ernest Hemingway,

The young man is also an idealist. He has yet to find out that what's in the public interest is not what the public is interested in. — Terry Pratchett

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. — Malcolm De Chazal

The difference between an idealist and a fanatic is the idealist is only 90% sure he's right. — Jim Payne

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

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin

I'm a cynical idealist. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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