Real Quotes - page 6

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. (Salvador Dalí)
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. View quote
Henri Matisse
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. View quote
Hosea Ballou
The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to. View quote
Brian Greene
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. View quote
Mark Twain
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people, as no historical reconstruction can. View quote
Edith Hamilton
The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. View quote
Arthur Miller
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. View quote
John Keats
Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants' creed, the bees' creed. (John Galsworthy)
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
When I talk about love I'm thinking of unselfish love. Sex can be bought and sold just like anything else. But I think real love is about giving and not expecting anything in return. View quote
Bono
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. View quote
Joseph Brodsky
Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, - studied for, - thought for, - and, more than all, it must be prayed for. View quote
Thomas Arnold
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. View quote
Sigmund Freud
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better. (John D. Carmack)
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. View quote
Adam Smith
The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. View quote
Oscar Levant