Unrealistic Thinking Quotes

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

Anyone who thinks you can pay $3,100 to the federal government and thinks you can get that money back completely in services - like I said - he may go to M-I-T but he is an N-U-T.

Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don't think it's so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

You can have too much reality.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet dreams.

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic.

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

The fundamental trouble with the anarchist is that, though he may be highly intelligent, he has no sense. A fruitful discussion of anarchism is almost an impossibility. If they do not realize that they have set their net among the stars, no word of man will persuade them that their thoughts are moving in a world unreal and unrealizable.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality. MacKinnon’s unrealistic fulminations against a phantom patriarchy exist in the arid arena of pure thought.

For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an emergency without a foreseeable end. Such men as these are crackpot realists: In the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.

I thought Doodyville was inside of the television. You know, like, if television was this box - and if I went inside the box that was a television, I'd be in Doodyville.

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.