Idealists Quotes

The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.