1. Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death.
Anaïs Nin

2. There is ascension to potential that Plato couldn’t conceive while prescribing idealism to conception as highest existences. With Streams, there isn’t a difference between ideas and instantiations. They are both authenticated within all possibilities in Stream, within the Primal Cause as ordered. Ideas as ordered constructs in consciousness, instantiations as ordered effects. Instantiations for instance are ordered products from ideas. Ideas are ordered constructs in consciousness. And in authentication, they are the same as external effects.
Dew Platt

3. I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
William Hague

4. Most idealists lived in their own impossible worlds, sealed away from reality…
Helene Wecker

5. It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
Morris Raphael Cohen

6. Idealism is having a vision of what is possible and wanting to make a difference. It is caring passionately about what is meaningful in life. Idealists see things as they could be and have faith in the power of change.
Anonymous

7. Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.
Kristin Hannah

8. Chivalry – …a romantic idealism closely related to Christianity, which makes honor the guiding principle of conduct. Connected with this is the ancient concept of the gentleman.
Anonymous

9. Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
Richard M. Nixon

10. At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.” Shirley Chisholm

11. America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.
Alistair Cooke

12. I’m restless. My whole generation is restless. I’m sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I’d not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man’s son an automobile.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

13. Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
Melvin Maddocks

14. It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.
Albert Schweitzer

15. 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

16. It would be perfect if everyone who makes love, is in love, but this is simply an unrealistic expectation. I’d say 75 percent of the population of people who make love, are not in love, this is simply the reality of the human race, and to be idealistic about this is to wait for the stars to aline and Jupiter to change color; for the Heavens to etch your names together in the sky before you make love to someone. But idealism is immaturity, and as a matter of fact, the stars may never aline, Jupiter may never change color, and the Heavens may never ever etch your names together in the sky for you to have the never-ending permission to make endless love to one another. And so the bottom line is, there really is no difference between doing something today, and doing something tomorrow, because today is what you have, and tomorrow may not turn out the way you expect it to. At the end of the day, sex is an animalistic, humanistic, passionate desire
C. JoyBell C.

17. Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. Niccolo Machiavelli

18. At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
Shirley Chisholm

19. Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
Henri Bergson

20. You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It’s very real. It’s very strong.
Bono

21. My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
Hugh Hefner

22. A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.
Warren W. Wiersbe

23. Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Aldous Huxley

24. Idealism and realism meet in the actual.
Mary Parker Follett

25. Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.
Don Henley

26. In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. Billy Corgan

27. Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow Wilson

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

29. Idealism is what precedes experience. Cynicism is what follows.
David T Wolf

30. There is no realism without an element of idealism.
Henry A. Kissinger

31. Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.
Theodore Roosevelt

32. Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Herbert Hoover

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33. The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling… I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that’s why I went to America. I didn’t intend to stay.
Howard Stringer

34. Reaching your potential is not simply about dreaming or being idealistic, It is a process that involve specific actions, exercises, discipline and hard work. It is challenging, rewarding and unending
Steven Kaplan

35. 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

36. Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell

37. The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.
Paullina Simons

38. The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism, after you lose your innocence.
Bruce Springsteen

39. For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. Henry Cabot Lodge

40. Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Sidney Hook

41. I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg

42. All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity.
Friedrich Nietzsche

43. The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Neil Kinnock

44. People are creators. But I doubt that many realize this. We are not meant to go out into the world and find flawless things, we are not meant to sit down and have flawless things fall into our laps. But we are creators. We can create a beautiful thing out of what we have. The problem with idealistic people is that they see themselves as receivers instead of creators, they end up hunting for the flaw in everything in order to measure it up to their ideals. Now, when you see yourself as a creator, you can look at a chunk of marble and see the angel within it. Then you carve until you have set that angel free
C. JoyBell C.

45. An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris

46. Idealism,Beneath this mask there is no more than flesh.. there is an idea..and ideas are bullet proof
Anonymous

47. I’m all for Spencer. He’s sincere, idealistic, and a good preacher. I just don’t believe that social action is the main business of the Church.Then what is? Salvation.
Catherine Marshall, Julie

48. The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.
Calvin Coolidge

49. Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

50. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Carl Jung

51. Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf

52. We need you, we need your youth, your strength and your idealism, to help us make right what is wrong.
Ronald Reagan

53. If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?
James Carville

54. An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford

55. A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
Anonymous

56. Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
William Irwin Thompson

57. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
John Galsworthy

58. Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Pearl S. Buck

59. Idealism is only naive when it lacks action, determination, and imagination.
Colin Wright

60. Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. Claude McKay

61. In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell

62. An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken

63. I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg