Quotes
Quotes about Reality
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - "Leadership Is an Art".
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.
Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.
Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.
There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived.
This is too much reality for a Friday.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
One might speak to great length of the three corners of realitywhat was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.
The reality of life is that your perceptionsâ right or wrongâinfluence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
A cause a day keeps reality away.
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
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.
