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Realists do not fear the results of their study. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Realists know where they're going. Dreamers have already been there. -- Robert Orben
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. -- Theodor Herzl
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
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers. -- Paul Wellstone
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. -- Hillary Clinton
I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is. -- Aretha Franklin
Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. -- Thorne Smith
The number of realists who are betting that both the 'economy gets healthy soon' and this government gets spending under control is a tiny group, indeed. -- Bob Beauprez
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
Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. -- William Gibson
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. -- Kurt Sutter
The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists. -- Chiang Kai-shek
I was staying at the Konchucos Tambo lodge, next to the Huascaran national park, near Chavin. Sitting here on its veranda, I was beginning to see where all those Latin American magical realists get their inspiration from: they don't need to make anything up; they just write down what's around them. -- Mark Barrowcliffe
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers -- Paul Wellstone
What reality was ever made by realists? -- Richard Flanagan
I'm a realist. And realists don't fool themselves. -- Adam Dunn
men are not realists - only women are. -- Mae West
"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists. -- Stefano Benni
When people have given up on happiness they call themselves "realists. -- Marty Rubin
Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. -- Joseph T. Hallinan
The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it. -- Edith Hamilton
A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds... -- Sylvia Plath
Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of perfectionists. -- Heywood Hale Broun
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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
Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic. -- Seth Godin
The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art. -- Roland Barthes
I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people. -- Tzipi Livni
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists. -- Sydney J. Harris
There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers have already been there. -- Robert Orben
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand. -- Kathleen Norris
Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour! -- Pope Francis

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