Quotes About Idealism

Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.

the young are idealistic, have an underdeveloped sense of their own mortality, and are afflicted with an exaggerated thirst for justice.

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Nou?, tinerilor, ne este de dou? ori mai greu s? ne susÈ›inem opiniile într-o vreme în care tot ce înseamn? idealism e distrus È™i zdrobit, în care oamenii îÈ™i arat? partea cea mai urât?, în care se pun sub semnul îndoielii adev?rul, justiÈ›ia È™i Dumnezeu.

Asta-i dificultatea timpului nostru: idealul, visele, speranÈ›ele frumoase nici nu apuc? s? apar? bine, È™i numaidecât sunt lovite de realitatea atroce È™i distruse cu totul.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while

And I am aware of her failings as well. She was impatient, she did not tolerate foolishness or indecision. Too often she did not listen to the views of others, and she was hasty in her judgment, but when she was wrong she apologized." His voice softened and he blinked rapidly. "She was a creature of high idealism

Don't you understand that men will never do more than dream of peace?

Would that it were true, would that all the poems and paintings of the world were but a mirror of such hopeful splendor.

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

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

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

I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17...

All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.

Just as Don Quixote, whose preposterous idealism and touchy pride immediately struck a chord with the Spanish, so Pinocchio speaks to Italians in a very special way as a caricature of many of their national virtues and vices.