{"topic":"idealism","quotes":[{"quote":"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.","author":"Carl Sandburg"},{"quote":"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.","author":"David T. Wolf"},{"quote":"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.","author":"H. L. Mencken"},{"quote":"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.","author":"Henry Ford"},{"quote":"When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.","author":"Logan Pearsall Smith"},{"quote":"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson"}]}