Realists Quotes

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

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

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.

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

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.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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.

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists.