Reality Quotes

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

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

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

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Tupac Shaku

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.

Lu Yen

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

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.

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

L. J. Suenens

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

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Anon.

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

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

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

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.

Anonymous

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

Tom Clancy

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945

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

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

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

Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.

Scott Ringenbach

What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.

Jane Wagne

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Phillip K. Dick

Attitude is more important than reality.

Elaine Agathe

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

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

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

Hob Broun

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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

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

Alexis Carrel

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

"Scratch" Garrison

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.

Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets

The best Web sites are better than reality.

Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant

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