Dreamer quotes

Dreamer

206 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Marie Curie
Marie Curie Physicist, Chemist

"Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit."

Che Guevara
Che Guevara Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader

"The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations."

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Aesop Rock Rapper
Dreamer

"Dream a little dream, Or you can live a little dream I'd rather live it 'Cause dreamers always chase But never get it"

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Milan Kundera Writer
Dreamer

"We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
Dreamer

"I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers."

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James Allen Author, Philosopher
Dreamer

"The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers."

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet
Dreamer

"A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life."

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Jose Antonio Vargas Journalist, Activist
Dreamer

"Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity."

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