Gary Johnson Quotes

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I don't want to live in a fantasy world.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

We need realism to deal with reality.

That is what all of us must learn to do in the United States; to limit objectives, to get ourselves away from the absolute, to find out what is within our powers.

Facts are better than dreams.

To govern well, one must see things as they are.

One has to view things realistically.

I consider myself a realist.

I am a realistic type of guy. I am my biggest critic.

I don't deal with hypotheticals. I deal with reality.

I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.

I'm always being realistic.

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.