Definition of Idealist

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Definition of Idealist
	Idealist One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations. One who holds the doctrine of idealism. Related Definitions: Doctrine, Fancies, Given, Idealism, Of, One, Picturesque, Romantic, The, To, Who

Idealist Quotations

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin

I'm an idealist without illusions.
John F. Kennedy

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer

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.
Woodrow Wilson

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Irving Babbitt

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
Stanley Kubrick

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg

Idealist Translations

idealist in Dutch is idealist
idealist in German is Idealistin
idealist in Hungarian is idealista
idealist in Spanish is idealista

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