Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.
I'm a cynical idealist.
Cynic: an idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.
The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good. ' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.
I am an idealist. I believe in everything — I am only looking for proofs.
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
The only option for a pure idealist is to commit suicide.
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.
Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.
Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.