Reality Quotes

The best Web sites are better than reality.

Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant

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

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Harold Geneen

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

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Reality is only just a word.

Harry Chapin

Be as radical as reality.

Lenin

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

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

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.

Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashely Montagu

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Theodor Reik

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

Albert Einstein

The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Melissa Maye

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

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.

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

Allen Ginsberg

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

Erich Gutkind

Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.

Kent "Sparky" Gregory

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Author Unknown

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

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

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Anon.

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

H. Stanley Judd

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

Warren Bennis

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Phillip K. Dick

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultie

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

Philip K. Dick, Valis

What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.

Jane Wagne