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.

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

I'm a cynical idealist.

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

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

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

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

It was an idealistic vision that generation had.

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.

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

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy

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

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

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

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

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.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

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

The idealist regards facts as provisional.

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

When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.