Reality Quotes

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

Author Unknown

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

Erich Gutkind

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

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

Nietzsche

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Alan Watts

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambera

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

Hermann Weyl

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

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

Reality is only just a word.

Harry Chapin

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

Cannot find REALITY. SYS... Universe Halted.

Anon.

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

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gautie

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.

John A. Rassias

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

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 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

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

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)

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

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero

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

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

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

Dr. Karl Menninge

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Tupac Shaku

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.

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

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

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945

Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Hob Broun

Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.

Unknown

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio