Realist Quotes

The visionary is the only realist.

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.

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

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.

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

I'm not an idealist anymore, I'm a bitter realist.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

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.

One cannot afford to be a realist.

Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist.

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

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

Cynical is a fool's word for realist.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

What reality was ever made by realists?

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

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.

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.

I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.

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

For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.

We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we're born and we die? We're born to live. One is a realist if one hopes.

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.

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

I like to think I'm some savage realist.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

I am indeed a moral realist.

It always felt like I had to be a realist.