Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell."
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Idealist
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"I'm a cynical idealist."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist."
Woodrow Wilson
Politician
"Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him."
Simon Sinek
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens."
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"I could safely declare, I am an idealist... I believe in everything - I am only looking for proofs."
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"No one more cynical than an idealist."
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"Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist."
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"There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying 'I am an American.'"
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"To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man."
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"Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist."
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