Idealism And Realism Quotes

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Don't look back, you can never look back

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

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.

It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

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.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.