Reality Quotes
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.Harold Geneen
I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculpto
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
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.Peter Sellers
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.Anon.
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
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self - Righteous isolation.John Dewey
Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.Scott Ringenbach
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.Joseph Conrad
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
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.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.Albert Einstein
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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.Lily Tomlin
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
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.Soren Kierkegaard
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.John A. Rassias
Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.William Gibson
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.Dr. Karl Menninge
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 that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.Phillip K. Dick
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
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
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
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.Jean Jacques Rousseau
What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.Jane Wagne
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.Robert H. Goddard
The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.Author Unknown
Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.Lu Yen
A theory must be tempered with reality.Jawaharlal Nehru
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
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
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.Philip K. Dick, Valis
Reality continues to ruin my life.Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.Henry David Thoreau
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.Pablo Picasso
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.Unknown
