Reality Quotes

Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.

Scott Ringenbach

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

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)

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

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad

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

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

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.

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

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

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

Erich Gutkind

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

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.

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

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

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Ashely Montagu

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

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

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Victor Daniels

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Robert J. Ringe

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

Unknown

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

Albert Einstein

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

Author Unknown

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

The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

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.

Be as radical as reality.

Lenin

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

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Tupac Shaku

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultie

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