303 Quotes About Idealism

Nadie debería creerse perfecto, ni preocuparse demasiado por el hecho de no serlo.

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Lincoln, considering a Cabinet nominee: "He is a Radical without the petulance and fretfulness of many radicals.

Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes.

Speeches don't feed people. What the people need are fresh vegetables and a good fish broth, at least once a week. I'm only interested in the kinds of revolution that start off by getting people to the table.

Only a fool pursues perfection, the wise pursues self-correction.

You, my dear Rodion Romanovich (excuse an old man), are still a young man, in your first youth, so to speak, and therefore you esteem the human intellect above all things, like all young people. Abstract reasoning and the play of wit tempt you astray.

The United States is a successful nation that is constantly susceptible to melancholy because things are not perfect.

Idealisme adalah kemewahan terakhir yang hanya dimiliki oleh pemuda.