Reality Quotes

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

William F. Buckley Jr.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

Theodore Harold White

Human kind cannot bear much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

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

Hob Broun

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

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Sydney Harris

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

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.

John A. Rassias

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

Joseph Conrad

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Toni Cade Bambera

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

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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

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

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Prize, Dec. 10, 1964

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

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gautie

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

Soren Kierkegaard

Human beings cannot stand too much reality.

Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets

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

Theodor Reik

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

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

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

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

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Franois Maurice Mitterrand

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Tupac Shaku

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

Virtual Reality is like mainlining television.

William Gibson