An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. —Henry Ford More about this quote Tags: idealism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: humor idealism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. —Carl Sandburg More about this quote Tags: progress change idealism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dream in a pragmatic way. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Tags: idealism dream pragmatism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. —H. L. Mencken in Minority Report More about this quote Tags: humanity power greed idealism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. —Robert Anton Wilson More about this quote Tags: cynicism idealism corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the boy's level, hero worship gravitates toward the doer of spectacular deeds; on the average adult level, toward the wielder of power; and in the eyes of a more critical judgment, toward idealism and moral qualities. —Dixon Wecter More about this quote Tags: power heroism morality worship idealism hero worship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. —Paul Eldridge More about this quote Tags: ideas death idealism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: idealism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts. . . . To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: heart mankind idealism longing water men and women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email