Reality Quotes

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

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

Melissa Maye

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

Robert J. Ringe

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

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

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

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Pablo Picasso