Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Actual Well Seen

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

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.  ~ Theodore Roosevelt

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.  ~ Oscar Wilde

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?  ~ Eliza Cook

The actual well seen is ideal.  ~ Thomas Carlyle 

Quotes about ideals, life