Ludwig von Mises Quotes

Facts are better than dreams.

Portray the world for what it is, and you will find truth.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

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

Truth is a big concept.

I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

We must face the facts as we find them, not as we may wish them.

You have to show reality as it is, not as you wish it to be.

I don't want to manipulate actuality; I want to record it.

Look at the facts as they truly are, not as you want them to be.

Comedy's about things the way they are. It's about the world as it is, not the world as we would like it to be, and science is the same, really.

There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.

There is no realism without an element of idealism.

Don't mistake the Russia you want to exist for the Russia that there actually is. Be realistic.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

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

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.