The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
I'm an idealist.
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk.
The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
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