Definition of Idealistic

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Definition of Idealistic
	Idealistic Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories. Related Definitions: Of, Or, Pertaining, Their, Theories, To

Idealistic Quotations

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

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.
John Cusack

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
Irving Babbitt

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
Alfred North Whitehead

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
Thom Yorke

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
Paul Nurse

It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.
Margot Kidder

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
Olivier Martinez

Idealistic Translations

idealistic in German is idealistisch
idealistic in Hungarian is idealista
idealistic in Spanish is idealista
idealistic in Swedish is ideell, idealistisk

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