Reality Quotes

A theory must be tempered with reality.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.
Lu Yen
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
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
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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
Anonymous - art is a deliberate recreation of a new and...
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays (1919)
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 only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
Unknown
Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli
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
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
Nietzsche
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 but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.
Melissa Maye
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
Peter Sellers
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gautie
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
Dr. Karl Menninge
The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
Erich Gutkind
People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
Robert J. Ringe
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
Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Phillip K. Dick
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
The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.
John A. Rassias
The difference between fiction and reality Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
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
Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
L. J. Suenens
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
Reality is only just a word.
Harry Chapin
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
Tupac Shaku
An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.
Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Theodor Reik
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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