Idealism Quotes

I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.

Toba Beta

Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda.

Tan Malaka

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true. I believe that, by the grace of God, men will awake presently and be men again, and colour and laughter and splendid living will return to a grey civilisation. But that will only come true because a few men will believe in it, and fight for it, and fight in its name against everything that sneers and snarls at that ideal.

Leslie Charteris

Saya akan lebih mendulukan kebenaran-kebenaran universal, bukan hutang budi, bukan kewajiban moral dan bukan juga pengabdian buta.

Putu Wijaya

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Susan Neiman

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Alexander Smith

Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.

Niccolo Machiavelli

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Sir Winston Churchill

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

Pir Vilayat Khan

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

Eliza Cook

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

Stanley Baldwin

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

Neil Gaiman

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

Francis Herbert Hedge

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Dickens

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Karl Kraus

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Libby Houston

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

Willa Cather