Definition of Realistic

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Definition of Realistic
	Realistic Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination. Related Definitions: By, Characterized, Imagination, In, Manner, Of, Or, Pertaining, Rather, Realism, Than, The, To

Realistic Quotations

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Walt Disney

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
Hubert H. Humphrey

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
Golda Meir

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.
Thurgood Marshall

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
Irving Babbitt

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
Kofi Annan

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.
Jurgen Habermas

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.
Jurgen Habermas

I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.
Studs Terkel

Realistic Translations

realistic in German is realistisch, Realistisch, realistischen
realistic in Spanish is realista
realistic in Swedish is realistiskt

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