Quotes About Idealism And Realism

#1. What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

Peter Hook

#2. Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Mary Parker Follett

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

Claude McKay

#4. 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

#5. By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Oscar Wilde

#6. I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

Criss Jami

#7. If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. Life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

Felicia Hemans

#9. There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Henry A. Kissinger

#10. Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#11. The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Timothy Keller

#12. Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Richard M. Nixon

#13. Sometimes it's best to trade an ideal for something more practical that you can guarantee.

A.J. Darkholme

#14. He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

Christopher Love

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

William Hague

#16. America is exceptional in combining standard great-power realism with extravagant idealism about the country's redemptive role in creating international order.

Michael Ignatieff

#17. 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

#18. My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Victor Hugo

#19. The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Monique Roffey

#20. Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.

M.F. Moonzajer

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Never fuck with a scorned woman's scorned daughter.

J.B. Hartnett

#24. There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

Sam Tsui

#25. Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.

John Wooden