Top 500 Real Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord’s people.”

— J. C. Ryle

252. “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”

— Albert Einstein

253. “Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

254. “Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.”

— Ron Paul

255. “Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”

— Milton Friedman

256. “Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.”

— Oscar Wilde

257. “It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It’s real. And I meant it.”

— John Lennon

258. “As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

259. “In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down.”

— Stephen Hawking

260. “All the well-meaning advice in the world won’t amount to a hill of beans if we’re not even addressing the real problem.”

— Stephen R. Covey

261. “The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

262. “The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.”

— Milton Friedman

263. “I surrendered unto Him all there was of me; everything! Then for the first time I realized what it meant to have real power.”

— Kathryn Kuhlman

264. “The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.”

— George Bernard Shaw

265. “Tell me, Do you feel the way I feel? ’Cause nothing else is real In the La La Land machine.”

— Demi Lovato

266. “It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.”

— Douglas Adams

267. “All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.”

— Pema Chödrön

268. “In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation.”

— Swami Vivekananda

269. “The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.”

— Marianne Williamson

270. “Ive never understood having crushes on people who you dont know in real life. I only crush on people I meet. I mean, I can appreciate that someone is good-looking, obviously, but I dont intend to fantasize about people I dont know!”

— Emma Watson

271. “That’s what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act.”

— Jim Morrison

272. “The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

273. “To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is – not the quick little excitement, but the real deep, life-filling bliss.”

— Joseph Campbell

274. “Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”

— Orhan Pamuk

275. “Conceit is a fog that envelops a man’s real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .”

— Napoleon Hill

276. “A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.”

— Francis Bacon

277. “The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.”

— Alan Cohen

278. “Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.”

— Napoleon Hill

279. “When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.”

— Henry David Thoreau

280. “There will never be a nuclear war; there’s too much real estate involved.”

— Frank Zappa

281. “I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn’t tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.”

— Khaled Hosseini

282. “In ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me – a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.”

— John Lennon

283. “The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively – because without this humble appliance, you can’t know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.”

— Frank Zappa

284. “The problem with real estate is that it’s local. You have to understand the local market.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

285. “Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.”

— David Foster Wallace

286. “The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball.”

— Babe Ruth

287. “Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.”

— Virginia Woolf

288. “Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.”

— Prince

289. “The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.”

— Karl Marx

290. “School is tough sometimes, but it’s all about knowing who your real friends are.”

— Ariana Grande

291. “You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”

— Neil Gaiman

292. “The real problem with stories – if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

— Neil Gaiman

293. “I’ve known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, ‘Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?’ I would say, ‘Astrophysicist .’ And then they’d walk away real quickly.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

294. “Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.”

— Earl Nightingale

295. “Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.”

— Jodi Picoult

296. “You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.”

— William Faulkner

297. “The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.”

— Joseph Campbell

298. “Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.”

— James Baldwin

299. “The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

300. “I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.”

— Mae West