Quotes about Idealism
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
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
— GK Chesterton
Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.
— Henry David Thoreau
God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature.
— Timothy Keller
At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
— Shirley Chisholm
I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
— Anne Frank