Thomas Middleton Quotes

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

Facts are better than dreams.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

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

We need realism to deal with reality.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

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

I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

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.

Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

You have to have the common sense.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

I don’t bluff, but I do act with realism.

Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.