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

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show

An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.

Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

Nietzsche

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

Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Edward Albee

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Cicero

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillo

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

Be as radical as reality.

Lenin

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gautie

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.

Jane Wagne

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Franois Maurice Mitterrand

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

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

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)

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

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

Alan Watts

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

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

Author Unknown

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Samuel Smiles

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

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninge

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinge

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

L. J. Suenens

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

Warren Bennis

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Tupac Shaku

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

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

Hermann Weyl

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society.

Janet Jackson