Famous quotes containing the word realist:
“Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.”
—David Ben Gurion (1886–1973)
“The realist lies for advantage. The fantasist lies to give his dreams a flavor of reality.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)