Idealistic Quotes

“I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

“If I wasn't idealistic, there wouldn't be anything worth fighting for.”
― Mik Everett

“Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.”
― Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life

“As a self described idealistic I never consider myself as single. I like to say that I’m in between romances at the moment.”
― Carl Henegan

“My only excuse is that I have no reputation myself, and I am thereby well aware of its ephemeral value. Reputation is worthless.

Sebastian Bonnington's love letter to Esme Rawlings”
― Eloisa James, Fool for Love

“Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences :
be they physical. social, intellectual or mental, those who live in them always nurture projection of themselves or world around them that are more imaginary than true.

In the ghettos of the intellect and idealistic theories, there are a lot of intertolerant and racist people who do not realize that they are.”
― Tariq Ramadan

“Idealistic notions that guide a younger person frequently prove unsustainable. Concluding any stage of life demands that a person rebuilds oneself after living destroys our ideological beliefs.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I give away examples!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster

“Belle is planning to host a series of salons," said Lio, appearing out of nowhere to fill her silence. It had been his first promise to her, in those wild days right after they broke the curse, when they talked feverishly about their most cherished dreams and whispered their deepest fears to each other. Back then, Belle's only fear had been her own ignorance. She had told him of her wish to travel to Paris and attend a salon herself, perhaps one that counted some of her favorite philosophes and encyclopédistes among its members. He had said her dream was toon small and that she herself should host one.
The Mademoiselle de Vignerot smiled politely. "What will the subject be?"
"Oh, everything," said Belle. Her enthusiasm elicited laughter, but she was entirely serious.
The comte de Chamfort cleared his throat, his lips curling into a sneer. "That is very broad, madame. Surely you have a more specific interest? My parents used to attend the famous Bout-du-Banc literary salon in Paris, but that was a very long time ago."
Belle gave him her best patient smile. "I don't wish to be limited, monsieur. My salons will invite scientists, philosophers, inventors, novelists, really anyone in possession of a good idea."
The comte guffawed. "Why on earth would you do such a thing?"
"To learn from them, monsieur. I would have thought the reason obvious."
Marguerite snorted into her glass. Belle sipped her drink as Lio placed his hand on the small of her back. She didn't know if it was meant to calm her down or encourage her.
"Whatever for?" the comte asked with the menacing air of a man discovering he was the butt of a joke. "Everything that is worth learning is already taught."
"To whom?" Belle felt the heat rising in her cheeks. "Strictly the wealthy sons of wealthier fathers?" Some of Bastien's guests gasped, they themselves being the children of France's aristocracy, but Belle was heartened when she saw Marguerite smile encouragingly. "I believe that education is a right, monsieur, and one that has long been reserved exclusively for the most privileged among us. My salons will reflect the true reality."
"Which is what, madame?" Marguerite prompted eagerly.
Belle's heart rattled in her chest. "That scholarship is the province of any who would pursue it.”
― Emma Theriault, Rebel Rose

“An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs acts that are honest, pure, and righteous regardless of their fearfulness.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I believed, with morbid sincerity, that if I could make him my friend, we would together, in some small but consequential way, defy the wicked logic of hate and war, that we, together, would stand as a rebuke to the grotesque idea that our problem was without a solution.”
― Jeffrey Goldberg, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide

“Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.”
― Catherine Lacey, The Answers

“His eye fell on my newly purchased books: The Romance of the Forest, and An Oriental Tale were well enough, but I did not know which was the worst between Mr. Beckford's infamous Vathek or Mrs. Wollstonecroft's Rights of Women.”
― Martine Bailey, A Taste for Nightshade

“If you don’t have the highest ambitions, you will never achieve anything great. If you’re “realistic” rather than “idealistic”, you will inevitably accept failure because failure is always the realistic outcome of any undertaking. Samuel Beckett said, “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” That’s idealistic, not realistic. The realist would just give up. Illuminism is about aiming for the highest heights. If you prefer the plains, the lows, the average, the ordinary, the banal, the bland, the uncommitted, the neutral, the self-interested, the “realistic”, Illuminism is not for you.”
― Mike Hockney, Richard Dawkins: The Pope of Unreason

“It is quite common for most people to think that Lover brands like mine are too idealistic, and this is because we are positioned as the gateway into the world of ecstasy.”
― Lebo Grand

“Rand: When we were in Ireland, I sense you were getting too attached to me. I even started comparing myself to Rich, wondering if I was a bad as he was for preying on your feelings.
Alison: You're nothing like him. You're kind, decent and heroic.
Rand: I'm not the guy in the book you're going to write. You can't turn me into him.
Alison: What if you're already becoming him on your own.
Rand: You're just being idealistic.”
― Sheri Whitefeather, A Convenient Texas Wedding

“Peace and love are not idealistic improbabilities, they are very definite possibilities within the scope of each and every individual relationship.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves the World: A Call to Conscience and a Call to Action

“By extricating 'reality' from mind, materialism has sent the significance of nature into exile. With the pathetic grin of hubris stamped on our foolish faces, we carefully unwrap the package and then proceed to throw away its contents whileb proudly storing the empty box on the altar of our ontology. What a huge stash of empty boxes have we accumulated! Idols of stupidity they are; public reminders of a state of affairs that would be hilarious if it weren't tragic.”
― Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There is no Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything