Reality Quotes

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.

John A. Rassias

Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.

Kent "Sparky" Gregory

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Unknown

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Harold Geneen

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.

Hermann Weyl

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambera

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John W. Gardne

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Henry Mille

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

M. Scott Peck

What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.

Jane Wagne

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

Reality is only just a word.

Harry Chapin

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Henry Fielding

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.

Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets

Cannot find REALITY. SYS... Universe Halted.

Anon.

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience.

David P. Mikkelson, Snopes. com, 04 - 10 - 04

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

L. J. Suenens

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashely Montagu

Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

Henri Frdric Amiel

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

Allen Ginsberg

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Victor Daniels