Quotes by Idealism Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. Richard M. Nixon realism immoral idealism Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. Richard M. Nixon pragmatism idealism keys Idealism is a fuel for living, and there is an absolute efficiency about how it motivates and propels us. Rick Alverson efficiency idealism It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. Ralph Waldo Emerson idealism curious christian Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. Robert Anton Wilson idealism cynical cynicism Without a vision the people perish. Ronald Reagan idealism vision people If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. Sargent Shriver idealism college young Leadership is Idealism in Action. Sathya Sai Baba idealism action It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power. Seth idealism increase important It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage. Stuart Pearson Wright idealism stage important The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism. Susan Sontag most-amazing phenomenon idealism The actual well seen is ideal. Thomas Carlyle idealism ideals wells My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal. Thomas Huxley ethical idealism belief I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism. Vernon A. Walters pragmatists describe-myself idealism It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.' Matthew Stewart just university idealism finishing What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism. Peter Hook life-is-a idealism balance life «123