Reality Quotes

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Harold Geneen

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

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

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic reality.

Fernando Botero, Columbian painter and sculpto

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink - Blot, you know.

Alan Watts

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

Lou Dorfsman

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

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that 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 the law.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show

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

Hope is the denial of reality.

Margaret Weis

Reality is only just a word.

Harry Chapin

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

Ashely Montagu

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Melissa Maye

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

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

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

Be as radical as reality.

Lenin

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

Hermann Weyl

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

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.

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

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.

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