There is a spark of idealism within every individual
which can be fanned into flame
and bring forth extraordinary results.
-Louis Brandeis
which can be fanned into flame
and bring forth extraordinary results.
-Louis Brandeis
that precedes creation.
-Alice Bailey
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions,
every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race,
has been labelled Utopian.
-Emma Goldman
is not even worth glancing at,
for it leaves out the one country
at which Humanity is always landing.
-Oscar Wilde
The idealist is incorrigible:
if he is thrown out of heaven,
he makes an ideal out of hell.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If you don't have some sense of idealism,
then what is there to sustain you?
-James Carville
The idealist walks on tiptoe,
the materialist on his heels.
-Malcolm de Chazel
I am an idealist.
I don't know where I'm going
but I'm on my way.
-Carl Sandburg
The whole thing began with fancy and with dreaming;
and there are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
Leaving the wits with spacious air,
With license to build castles there.
-Jonathan Swift
Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher,
and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis
cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
-Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Building castles in the air
and making yourself a laughing stock.
-Miguel de Cervantes
A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
-William R. Alger
Ah, castles in the air
cost a vast deal to keep up!
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Castles in the air -
they are so easy to take refuge in.
And easy to build as well.
-Henrik Ibsen
If you're going to build something in the air,
it is better to build castles than houses of cards.
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If you build castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau
Why should we strive,
with cynic frown
to knock their fairy castles down?
-Eliza Cook
Idealism increases in direct proportion
to one's distance from the problem.
-John Galsworthy
Idealism springs from deep feelings,
but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea
that keeps them whole.
-Jacques Barzun
To rest satisfied in the mental construct
of the ideal itself
is the ultimate escape.
-Diana E. Roche
Idealist reality is found to be mere escapism
if ever taken by itself
or ever given any authority on its own account.
-Marc Edmund Jones
How easy human frailties could thrive under the cover of idealism.
-Hermann Hesse
The ideal must not be turned into the idol.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The great challenge of adulthood
is holding onto your idealism
after you lose your innocence.
-Bruce Springsteen
