Reality Quotes

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

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

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

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

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 best Web sites are better than reality.

Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant

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

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - - That all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Warren Bennis

A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality.

"Scratch" Garrison

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

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

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show

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

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Harold Geneen

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Victor Daniels

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.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Theodor Reik

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

William Gibson

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

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

Attitude is more important than reality.

Elaine Agathe

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

Dr. Karl Menninge

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

The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Alexis Carrel

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultie

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

Nietzsche

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

H. Stanley Judd

Paranoia is a finer scale of reality.

Michael W. Moore

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

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

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.

Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets