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.

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.

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

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?

What reality was ever made by realists?

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

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.

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'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.

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 don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?

I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.

[ 'American Dream' ] probably will [go] somewhere in Europe. You get 3000 entries [to] Sundance, and how many movies get [screened]? So, I'm a realist. I'm very much realistic in terms of if this movie will be released in the States. Probably not.

An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.

Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

I am a realist. I expect miracles.

men are not realists - only women are.

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.