Reality Quotes

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

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

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

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 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

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

Theodor Reik

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

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

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

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

Erich Gutkind

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

Hob Broun

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

Toni Cade Bambera

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

Alexis Carrel

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

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

Nietzsche

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Marya Mannes

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gautie

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

Tom Clancy

Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.

Kent "Sparky" Gregory

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

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

Richard Feynman

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

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)

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

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

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

"Scratch" Garrison

The best Web sites are better than reality.

Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant

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.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert J. Ringe

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

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

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that 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 the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Alan Watts

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

Be as radical as reality.

Lenin

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

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

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

Melissa Maye

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche