Quotes by Idealism A visionary company doesn't simply balance between idealism and profitability: it seeks to be highly idealistic and highly profitable. James C. Collins idealismvisionariesbalance We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness. Jimmy Carter idealismnationsweakness Idealism is the highest form of reason. John Charles Polanyi idealismformreason Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them. Joyce Carol Oates idealismperfectionideas Any idealism is a proper subject for art. Lafcadio Hearn idealismsubjectsart Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. Laurell K. Hamilton idealismtheoryreal A dead martyr is just another corpse. Leo Gordon martyridealismhero Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out. Ludwig Wittgenstein realismidealismifs The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. Malcolm De Chazal tiptoesidealismhigh-heels 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 idealismoptimismpassion Idealism and realism meet in the actual. Mary Parker Follett idealism-and-realismrealismidealism Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute. Mason Cooley pursuitabsolutesidealism The idealist regards facts as provisional. Mason Cooley idealismidealistfacts The enemy of idealism is zealotry. Neil Kinnock idealismidealsenemy 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 idealismbigsideas The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left. Paullina Simons idealismleftgone The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. Penn Jillette idealismcreativityand-love Wishes are recollections coming from the future. Rainer Maria Rilke recollectionidealismwish Idealism has devolved into madness. Ralph Peters idealismmadness Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist. Ralph Waldo Emerson idealismidealist«123»
