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Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Too often people view idealists as naive.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.