Quotes about Idealism
Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem.
— William James
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
— John Wooden
I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).
— Shane Claiborne
But the idealist subdued to vulgar necessities must employ vulgar minds to draw the inferences to which he cannot stoop
— Edith Wharton
All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Step 8 is a marvelous tool and technology for very practical incarnation, which keeps Christianity grounded, honest, and focused on saving others instead of just ourselves. "Anyone who claims to be in the light, but hates his brother or sister, is still in the dark" (1 John 2:9). Until religion becomes flesh, it is merely Platonic idealism instead of Jesus radicalism.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.
— John Lennon
The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
— Herbert Hoover
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
— Andrew Jackson
evergreen philosophy of Idealism, springing up on American soil.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Did you want to be a missionary in your youth? I did. I think most kids do some time or another, which is odd, seein how unsatisfactory most of us turn out.
— Dorothy Sayers