Idealism And Realism Quotes

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Don’t look back, you can never look back

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don’t look back, you can never look back.

Over the past decades…while many businesses have pursued what I call ‘business as usual’, I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people’s highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough – you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.