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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 anidealist sees a life filled with colors. — Eraldo Banovac
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
... 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
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.
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
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
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
— Irving Layton
America: A place where Realists have the freedom to be Idealists.
— Dortha Jackson
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
— Roger Moore
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
I'm an idealist without illusions.
— John F. Kennedy
I'm an idealistwho 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
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. 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
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
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIOI 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
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
— George Carlin
I'm a cynical idealist.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
