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Too often people view idealists as naive.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.
I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976. My husband and I were young idealists who worked on his campaign.
There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
At TransferWise, we started out as - and continue as - idealists. We start with what we can do to make things better and how we can solve problems, focusing on what people need. It turns out you can focus on building the best service and be successful as business.
The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.