Walt Kelly Quotes

Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Life had stepped into the place of theory.

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it.

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first.

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it

It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

Words without experience are meaningless.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

Everybody is trying to make something real, something with a core of substance, and of course, an exciting action movie with a lot of terrific stuff and fantastic visuals and everything, but at the core of it, it's a movie with substance and something that is going to make people think.

Truth itself is something you live, not something you think.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.