When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
I'm an idealist.
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Too often people view idealists as naive.
An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.