An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
I am an idealist. I believe in everything — I am only looking for proofs.
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.
I'm a cynical idealist.
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision
Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.
Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good. ' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.
Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.
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.
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.