Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition. - Alisa Steinberg
But what reality was ever made by realists? - Richard Flanagan
Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. - Joseph T. Hallinan