Reality Quotes

Scott ringenbach - imagination is the reality of the dreamer....
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.
Robert A. Bake
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
L. J. Suenens
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
Noam chomsky, ruth anshen, biography of an idea (mt. kisco, ny: moyer bell limited, 1986), pg. 196 - the structure of language determines not only...
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
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
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Napoleon hill - first comes thought; then organization of that...
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
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
Harold Geneen
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
Anais Nin
The best Web sites are better than reality.
Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
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
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
Socrates
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
The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Phillip K. Dick
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....
Ursala Lequin
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.
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
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
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
Anon.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Be as radical as reality.
Lenin
Human beings cannot stand too much reality.
Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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.