Reality Quotes

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

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

Nietzsche

Reality is only just a word.

Harry Chapin

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

H. Stanley Judd

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

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultie

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

Helen Luke

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Vincent Van Gogh

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

Warren Bennis

Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.

Kent "Sparky" Gregory

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Unknown

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Harold Geneen

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

Hermann Weyl

Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

Edward Albee

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

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 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

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

L. J. Suenens

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Anon.

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.

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

Richard Feynman

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

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

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.

Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculpto

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

Allen Ginsberg

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

Dr. Karl Menninge

What is reality, anyway Just a collective hunch.

Jane Wagne

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

William F. Buckley Jr.

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

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

M. Scott Peck

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

Alexis Carrel

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

Pablo Picasso