Idealism Quotes

• ...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • People
  • Activity
  • Lacking

• Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Despair
  • Driven
  • Psychedelic

• Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Imagine
  • Innovation
  • Pragmatism

• We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Idealism
  • Idealistic Nation

• The Thrive Diet is not about perfection or idealism, it’s about progress.

  

  Brendan Brazier
  • Progress
  • Perfection
  • Diet

• Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Trust

• Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Worst
  • Indulgence
  • Idealism

• The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • War
  • Care
  • Rich

• Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

  

  Erich Segal
  • Living
  • Heroism
  • Idealism

• Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • Realism
  • Idealism

• You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you can't change human nature from intelligent self-interest into pure idealism—not in this life; and if you could, what would be left for paradise?

  

  Joseph Cannon
  • Nature
  • Change
  • Idealism

• Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Teacher
  • Imagine

• Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

  

  Sung Kang
  • World
  • Better
  • Idealism

• One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

  

  Sidney Hook
  • Ignorance
  • Foolishness
  • Idealism

• I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain.

  

  Catherine Breillat
  • People
  • Passion
  • Mean

• I share with you an innate desire to be of public service to this country. It is the lot of our generation to serve as military men first, and then, with an idealism undaunted to enlist with as much zeal to form a lasting peace. All will come right, our cause is just and righteous. This country will not lose.

  

  Nile Kinnick
  • Country
  • Generation
  • Idealism

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