303 Quotes About Idealism

We are defeated against our weaknesses, not the difficulties.-Red White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

You are an idealist," Bonteri said. "That's not a bad thing.""I know," Padmé said. "I have worked very hard at it.

David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his friends in the billiard room in order to be reassured that the external world was really there.

The delegates to the peace conference after World War I "tried to impose a rational order on an irrational world.

Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.

It's idealistic, it's for love and gentleness, it's close to nature, it hurts nobody, it's voluntary. I can't see anything wrong with any of that.''Neither can I. The only trouble is, this commune will be inhabited by and surrounded by members of the human race.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.