Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never...

I know he’s a realist, he’s okay with being alone, and he helps people when he thinks no one is watching.

Almost everyone is overconfident–except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.

Lots of people like rainbows. Children make wishes on them, artists paint them, dreamers chase them, but the Aquarian is ahead of everybody. He lives on one. What’s more, he’s taken it apart and examined...

A realist is a slave to reality.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.