Idealist
One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.
One who holds the doctrine of idealism.
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Idealist Quotations
I'm an idealist without illusions.
John F. Kennedy
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Woodrow Wilson
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Irving Babbitt
Idealist Translations
idealist in Dutch is idealist
idealist in German is Idealistin
idealist in Hungarian is idealista
idealist in Spanish is idealista
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