“ Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ”
- David T. Wolf- Copy
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“ An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ”
- Robert Anton Wilson- Copy
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“ An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
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“ No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. ”
- Mikhail Bakunin- Copy
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“ Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. ”
- Ryszard Kapuscinski- Copy
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“ Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ”
- John Galsworthy- Copy
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“ Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ”
- David T. Wolf- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
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“ A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.'. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. ”
- Stanley Baldwin- Copy
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“ Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ”
- Robert Anton Wilson- Copy
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“ A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. ”
- Vilayat Inayat Khan- Copy
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“ If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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