A Quote by Henry A. Kissinger

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Henry A. Kissinger

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Henry A. Kissinger
Born: May 27, 1923

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Richard M. Nixon

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

Henri Bergson

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

Richard M. Nixon

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Mary Parker Follett

Art is beauty, and every exposition of art, whether it be music, painting, or the drama, should be subservient to that one great end. As long as nature is a means to the attainment of beauty, so-called realism is necessary and permissable [sic], but it must be realism enhanced by idealism and uplifted by the spirit of an inner life or purpose.

Julia Marlowe

Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

Peter Hook

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

William Hague

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Monique Roffey

By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

Oscar Wilde

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Claude McKay

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Raymond Chandler

Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?

Erich Segal

It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.

John McCain

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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