Real Quotes

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake."
-Henry David Thoreau

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
-Albert Einstein

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption."
-Mark Twain

"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed."
-Mark Twain

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
-Mark Twain

"I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed."
-Mark Twain

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
-Plato

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
-George Orwell

"God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas."
-Pablo Picasso

"We have a lot of reasons but only one real one."
-Pablo Picasso

"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true."
-George Bernard Shaw

"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."
-George Bernard Shaw

". . .the real world is much smaller than the imaginary."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."
-Oscar Wilde

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
-Oscar Wilde

"Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life."
-Oscar Wilde

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
-Henry Ford

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
-Oprah Winfrey

"You know, the one with all the well meaning rules that don't work out in real life, uh, Christianity."
-Matt Groening

"The hair is real; it's the head that's fake."
-Steve Allen

"You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."
-Laurence Sterne

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
-Rene Descartes

"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."
-Saint Teresa Of Avila

"When truth is nothing but the truth, its unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world. In nature there are always so many other irrelevant things mixed up with the essential truth."
-Aldous Huxley

"Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them."
-Aldous Huxley