Realisation Quotes

The murder of my husband by the railways has altered the way I think about everything. I had always thought that the majority of people were decent and honourable. In the wake of the crash, what made me angry more than anything else was the realisation that this was not true. I still find it very hard to come to terms with.

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.

I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.