Reality Quotes

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

We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

Hermann Weyl

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Max De Pree

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Warren Bennis

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.

Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculpto

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

John A. Rassias

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

Helen Luke

Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Hob Broun

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Henry Mille

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

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

Erich Gutkind

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945

All the best stories are but one story in reality - - The story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultie

Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.

Scott Ringenbach

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

William Gibson

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Alexis Carrel

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.

Anonymous

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.

Socrates

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

T. S. Eliot

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Melissa Maye

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

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

Reality is only just a word.

Harry Chapin

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

Albert Einstein

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

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink - Blot, you know.

Alan Watts

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Harold Geneen