Top 28 Idealism Versus Realism Quotes
#1. As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.
David Mitchell
#2. Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Claude McKay
#3. Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
G.K. Chesterton
#4. By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
Oscar Wilde
#5. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.
Criss Jami
#6. What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
Peter Hook
#7. One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
David Duchovny
#10. The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.
Timothy Keller
#11. Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.
Richard M. Nixon
#12. Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.
A.J. Darkholme
#13. I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
William Hague
#14. America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.
Michael Ignatieff
#15. Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
John Wooden
#16. It has generally been assumed that of two opposing systems of philosophy, e.g., realism and idealism, one only can be true and one must be false; and so philosophers have been hopelessly divided on the question, which is the true one.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#17. For tonight, I have to get back to Three's Company. I stopped last night in the middle of the episode where Mr. Roper saw something and took it out of context.
Andy Weir
#18. I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.
K'naan
#19. What builds character? It's a commitment to integrity, hard work, honor and keeping your word. All of that comes straight out of the Sigma Nu Creed. The guy who wrote that meant it. The whole idea is to think about those words and make them a part of who you are.
Bill Courtney
#20. The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.
Monique Roffey
#21. Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.
M.F. Moonzajer
#22. City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.
Mason Cooley
#23. Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.
Henri Bergson
#24. Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
Lin Yutang
#27. It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.
Theodore Roosevelt
#28. The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy.
Abraham Lincoln
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