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“Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.”

“Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.”

“The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises.”

Thinking Firsts Made Bigs Arise Manifestation Emptiness Bangs Absolutely Nothing Idealist

Book:A Brief History of Everything

Source: A Brief History of Everything

“They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.”

“Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression.”

Ideas Expression Materialism Idealist

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.”

Giving Believe Giving Up Realistic Being Real Sooner Or Later Realist Idealist Disheartened

Book:Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

“Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.”

Knows Inspirational Motivational Eye Law Young Justice Perfect Principles Sacrifice Ethics Absolutes Injustice Profession Lawyer Imperfect Idealist

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“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.”

Gone Fire Burned Realism Skeptic Realist Idealist

Author:Warren W. Wiersbe

“I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.”

Ifs Thinking Men Used Artist Former Dedicated Idealist Family Man

Author:Charlton Heston

“None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.”

Should Kind Self Government Difficult Citizens Demand Fairs Driven Patriotic Public Service Idealist Self-government Government Shutdown

Author:Barack Obama

“An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.”

Cynical Idealist

Author:Amy Ray

“Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.”

Believe Teacher Idealist

Author:Susan Wiggs

“I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.”

Bitter Realist Idealist

Author:Soe Hok Gie

“Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.”

World Ends Wife Males Seeking Disaster Infidelity Reckless Rushing Idealist Felicity Deserted

Author:William McFee

“The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.”

May Political Cases Economic Negative Program Ridiculous Absurd Reform Opposition Idealism Absurdity Competing Desirable Pointing Idealist Economic Reforms

Book:Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Two Major Works: Social Organization. Human Nature and the Social Order

“I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.”

Philosophy Screws Benevolent Idealist Misanthrope

Author:Alfred Nobel

“The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.”

Has Beens Century Crime Committed Communism Consideration Passages Dedicated Capitalist Twentieth Century Idealist Contemptuous Stalin And Hitler

Author:Eric Hoffer

“I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.”

Thinking Trying Wells Circumstances Limits Opposition Realist Idealist Incumbents

Author:Todd Gitlin

“You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.”

Thinking Knows Men World Wells Self Sometimes Moments Happens Care America Objects Ideals Perfection Fortune Ill Symbols Idealist Ideal Man Self Perfection

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

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