Reality Quotes

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
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)
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
Philip K. Dick, Valis
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Mille
Socrates - the shortest and surest way to live with honor in...
Hermann hesse - there is no reality except the one contained...
Cannot find REALITY. SYS... Universe Halted.
Anon.
Anonymous - art is a deliberate recreation of a new and...
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
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Tomlin
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
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
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
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.
Robert A. Bake
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
Imagination is the reality of the dreamer.
Scott Ringenbach
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.
John A. Rassias
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.
Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Phillip K. Dick
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show
Realism... has no more to do with reality than anything else.
Hob Broun
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Henry Fielding
Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
T. S. Eliot
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 best Web sites are better than reality.
Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant
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
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 more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality. - Epistulae ad Lucilium.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.
Melissa Maye
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
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.
Unknown
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
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
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Franois Maurice Mitterrand
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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
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