Motivational Quotes

Reality

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

- Bramah, Ernest

Best Quotes about Reality

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Lincoln, Abraham

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Miller, Henry

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Jane Wagner

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Bramah, Ernest

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 Kissinger

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Stevens, Wallace

It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

Kennedy, John F.

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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

Kohler, Wolfgang

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Rostand, Jean

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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

Camus, Albert

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Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Ionesco, Eugene

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Cocteau, Jean

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Wilde, Oscar

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks.

Ellen Herman

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You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

Woolf, Virginia

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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Moore, George

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Weil, Simone

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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Daney, Serge

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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Daniels, Victor

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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Chopra, Deepak

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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Brecht, Bertolt

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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor

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The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Stevens, Wallace

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The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.

Sales, Raoul De

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You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Lee, Bruce

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Lee, Al

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One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.

Bell, Marvel

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Stein, Ben

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Mary Chase

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

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The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Stein, Gertrude

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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Zukav, Gary

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Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita

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The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Weil, Simone