I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967), Incidentals (1907)
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf (1943 - )
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford1 (1863 - 1947)
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter2.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt3... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
