When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.
I'm a great believer in compromise. I know it's not popular among young idealists.
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
God save me from idealists.
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
The idealist regards facts as provisional.
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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.
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed 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).
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
I'm a cynical idealist.
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.
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.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
