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Realist Quotes

1.
The visionary is the only realist.
Federico Fellini

Authors on Realist Quotes: Stephen King Martin Luther King, Jr. Fyodor Dostoevsky George Carlin Daniel Woodrell Moby Jack Tatum Tom Hiddleston Esther Perel Jessica Chastain Olga Korbut Albert Bandura Bertrand Russell Leni Zumas Carolyn Heilbrun Jackie Joyner-Kersee Torbjorn Tannsjo Elisabeth Rohm Joan Baez Nancy Spain Quentin Crisp Bill Maher Paul Christopher James Earl Jones Roger Moore Benjamin Graham Frances Parkinson Keyes Richard Flanagan Adam Carolla Hillary Clinton Mae West Warren W. Wiersbe Aretha Franklin
2.
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
Benjamin Graham

3.
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
Quentin Crisp

4.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
Arthur Symons

5.
I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."
Jessica Chastain

6.
I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.
Soe Hok Gie

7.
In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

8.
I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.
George Carlin

9.
Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.
Esther Perel

10.
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.
Warren W. Wiersbe

11.
I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.
Adam Dunn

12.
There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
Dean Koontz

13.
A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

15.
One cannot afford to be a realist.
Albert Bandura

16.
Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

17.
A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.
Frances Parkinson Keyes

18.
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
Nikolai Berdyaev

19.
Cynical is a fool's word for realist.
Paul Christopher

20.
I am a mixture of idealist and realist.
Roger Moore

21.
A man who has been shot at is a new realist, and what do you say to a realist when the war is a war of ideals?
Michael Shaara

22.
It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation.
Karen Russell

23.
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
William C. Wright

24.
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
Stefano Benni

25.
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
Tom Hiddleston

26.
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
Hillary Clinton

27.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell

28.
What reality was ever made by realists?
Richard Flanagan

29.
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
Aretha Franklin

30.
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
James Earl Jones

31.
I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.
Lee Kuan Yew

32.
I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist.
Ava DuVernay

33.
I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
Adam Carolla

34.
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
David Eddings

35.
I like to think I'm some savage realist.
Nick Frost

36.
I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.
Moby

37.
I am neither a pessimist nor an optimist. I am a realist, and the reality in Iraq is that it has been very hard and it continues to be hard.
David Petraeus

38.
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
Robert Charles Wilson

39.
People say I'm such a pessimist, but I always was. It never stopped me from doing what I had to do. I would say I'm a realist.
Joan Baez

40.
I am surprised by the word psychedelic. João Gilberto Noll does not accept realism in a straightforward way, but I am more inclined to call Quiet Creature a realist text than I am to call it a psychedelic one. The transcendent aspect of the psychedelic experience is totally absent.
Adam Morris

41.
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
Phyllis Bottome

42.
Realists know where they're going. Dreamers have already been there.
Robert Orben

43.
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
Daniel Woodrell

44.
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
Octavia Spencer

45.
Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.
Stephen King

46.
Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
Carolyn Heilbrun

47.
I am indeed a moral realist.
Torbjorn Tannsjo

48.
It always felt like I had to be a realist.
Jack Tatum

49.
I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.
Elisabeth Rohm

50.
I am a great realist in all aspects of life. Whatever I can do ... here it is.
Olga Korbut