Too often people view idealists as naive.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm an idealist.
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
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.
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.