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Realist Quotes

1.
The visionary is the only realist.
Federico Fellini

Authors on Realist Quotes: Fyodor Dostoevsky George Carlin Stephen King Martin Luther King, Jr. Pierre Trudeau Stefano Benni Arthur Symons Lee Kuan Yew Robert Charles Wilson David Petraeus Michael Shaara Federico Fellini William C. Wright Adam Morris Phyllis Bottome Janusz Kaminski Octavia Spencer Ava DuVernay Robert Orben Dean Koontz Moby Jack Tatum Tom Hiddleston Daniel Woodrell Esther Perel Jessica Chastain Olga Korbut Albert Bandura Leni Zumas Bertrand Russell Jackie Joyner-Kersee Torbjorn Tannsjo Carolyn Heilbrun
2.
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
Benjamin Graham

3.
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
Arthur Symons

4.
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

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.
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

10.
I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves.
Adam Dunn

11.
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

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

20.
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

21.
Cynical is a fool's word for realist.
Paul Christopher

22.
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.
Aretha Franklin

23.
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
James Earl Jones

24.
Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.
William C. Wright

25.
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

26.
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.
Stefano Benni

27.
I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.
Tom Hiddleston

28.
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
Hillary Clinton

29.
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

30.
What reality was ever made by realists?
Richard Flanagan

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

33.
You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
David Eddings

34.
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

35.
In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.
Nancy Spain

36.
[ '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.
Janusz Kaminski

37.
Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.
Leni Zumas

38.
An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic.
Peter Drucker

39.
I am a realist. I expect miracles.
Wayne Dyer

40.
men are not realists - only women are.
Mae West

41.
For my part...I am a realist but, somehow, optimism always keeps breaking out.
Pierre Trudeau

42.
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.
Studs Terkel

43.
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

44.
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

45.
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
Robert Charles Wilson

46.
I like to think I'm some savage realist.
Nick Frost

47.
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

48.
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

49.
When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.
Phyllis Bottome

50.
Realists know where they're going. Dreamers have already been there.
Robert Orben