Reality Quotes

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

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

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

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

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

Hob Broun

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Dr. Karl Menninge

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

Soren Kierkegaard

Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.

Kent "Sparky" Gregory

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

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

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

Erich Gutkind

Cannot find REALITY. SYS... Universe Halted.

Anon.

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

Hermann Weyl

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

William Gibson

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.

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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

Theodor Reik

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Pablo Picasso

Be as radical as reality.

Lenin

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

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

William F. Buckley Jr.

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Harold Geneen

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show

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

Unknown

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

Tom Clancy

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

Walter Lippmann

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

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Nietzsche

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.

Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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

Richard Feynman

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Napoleon Hill