Idealism Quotes - Page 10

• Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist; he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Greatness, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1992). “The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson”, p.27, Woodrow Wilson Center Press

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• America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon you get ideas, and then you get idealism, and the next thing you know you've got ideology, with millions dead in concentration camps and gulags.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Thinking

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• Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked "What's the big idea?" knows, most big ideas are bad ones.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Ideas, Bigs, Knows

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.256, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

  Charles Kennedy

  Young, Ideals, Withering

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• Happiness too is inevitable.

  Albert Camus

  Cynicism, Inevitable

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• idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Distance, Passion, Light

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• 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.

  John Foster Dulles

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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• There is an idealism associated with poetry I would not dispel but question. It doesn't change anything except within. It shifts your insides around. Poetry is not going to reach the numbers of people by which we commonly consider a large audience. It just isn't a stadium-filler. It could still galvanize people during a crisis, but let's just say there are two points at which poetry is indispensable to people - at the point of love and the point of death. I'll second that emotion.

  C.D. Wright

  People, Emotion, Crisis

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Funny, Witty, Falling In Love

  "Freedom". Book by Jonathan Franzen, 2010.

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

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, Determination, Needs

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• Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

  William Ellery Channing

  Life, Responsibility, Influence

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.285

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• Idealism in the young, I guess I'm saying, is curiosity as well as goodness trying to express itself.

  Dorothy Day

  Curiosity, Trying, Goodness

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• The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Two, Vision

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

  Joe Biden

  Fire, Our Society, Idealism And Realism

  "Biden Joins Campaign for the Presidency" by E. J. Dionne Jr., www.nytimes.com. June 10, 1987.

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• Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Dream, Teenager, Loss

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.208, David C Cook

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• I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope.

  Margot Kidder

  Passion, Optimism

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin, by a real idealism and an excitement about the possibilities of the intellect and imagination to deal with this somewhat brutal world.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Real, Imagination, World

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The Transcendentalist adopts the whole connection of spiritual doctrine. He believes in miracle, in the perpetual openness of thehuman mind to new influx of light and power; he believes in inspiration, and in ecstacy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Believe, Inspiration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.196, Library of America

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• I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.

  Richard Grossman

  Thinking, Brutality, Common

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Challenges, Innocence, Holding On

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• There is something in the American project, something in simple American oratory, something in the hope and idealism of this frustrating and contradictory nation that still makes my spirits soar and my heart leap with optimism and belief. If only they understood how to make a cup of tea.

  Stephen Fry

  Heart, Simple, Optimism

  Stephen Fry, Vanda Vucicevic (2008). “Stephen Fry in America”, Harpercollins Pub Ltd

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• Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Integrity, Magic

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• I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Pragmatists, Describe Myself

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• You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation now, and the next moment you must be ready to go and cultivate the fields. You must be prepared to explain the intricacies of the scriptures now, and the next moment to go and sell the produce of the fields in the market....The true man is he who is strong as strength itself and yet possesses a woman's heart.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• The most important part about tomorrow is not the technology or the automation, but that man is going to come into entirely new relationships with his fellow men. He will retain much more in his everyday life of what we term the naïveté and idealism of the child. I think the way to see what tomorrow is going to look like is just to look at our children.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, New Relationship, Technology

  "Connecting All The Dots" by Parag, Ayesha Khanna, bigthink.com.

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