Reality Quotes

Attitude is more important than reality.
Elaine Agathe
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Robert J. Ringe
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
Ayn rand, from the article
Lou dorfsman - creativity is essentially a lonely art. an even...
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
Peter Sellers
Hermann weyl - you can not apply mathematics as long as words...
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Alexis Carrel
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
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
Henri Frdric Amiel
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays (1919)
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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
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
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney Harris
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Mille
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
Unknown
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
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
Henry David Thoreau
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
Victor Daniels
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
Anais Nin
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
Marya Mannes
I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.
Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculpto
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
Nietzsche
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
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
Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.
Scott Ringenbach
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
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.
John Dewey
The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.
Michael W. Moore
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin
Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.
Lu Yen
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
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden