Reality Quotes

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
Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.
M. Scott Peck
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
Victor Daniels
Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli
Ursala lequin - to break a promise is to deny the reality of the...
Fernando botero, columbian painter and sculpto - i describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic...
Human beings cannot stand too much reality.
Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets
John w. gardne - self - pity is easily the most destructive of the...
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
Ashely Montagu
Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.
William Gibson
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - Never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?
C. S. Lewis
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.
Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
Erich Gutkind
Human kind cannot bear much reality.
T. S. Eliot
Reality is only just a word.
Harry Chapin
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his 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 law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Hob Broun
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Anon.
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Garrison
Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.
Lu Yen
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
Cannot find REALITY. SYS... Universe Halted.
Anon.
The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Phillip K. Dick
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.
Robert A. Bake
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultie
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
Attitude is more important than reality.
Elaine Agathe
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
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
Harold Geneen
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
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
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
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse