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 idealism visionaries balance We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness. Jimmy Carter idealism nations weakness Idealism is the highest form of reason. John Charles Polanyi idealism form reason 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 idealism perfection ideas Any idealism is a proper subject for art. Lafcadio Hearn idealism subjects art Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life. Laurell K. Hamilton idealism theory real A dead martyr is just another corpse. Leo Gordon martyr idealism hero Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out. Ludwig Wittgenstein realism idealism ifs The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels. Malcolm De Chazal tiptoes idealism high-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 idealism optimism passion Idealism and realism meet in the actual. Mary Parker Follett idealism-and-realism realism idealism Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute. Mason Cooley pursuit absolutes idealism The idealist regards facts as provisional. Mason Cooley idealism idealist facts The enemy of idealism is zealotry. Neil Kinnock idealism ideals enemy 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 idealism bigs ideas The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left. Paullina Simons idealism left gone The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all. Penn Jillette idealism creativity and-love Wishes are recollections coming from the future. Rainer Maria Rilke recollection idealism wish Idealism has devolved into madness. Ralph Peters idealism madness Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist. Ralph Waldo Emerson idealism idealist «123»