Reality Quotes

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
Richard Dawkins

Poetry, Culture, Bible

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Douglas Adams

Guide, Definitive, Inaccurate

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Nature, Technology, Successful

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
Yoko Ono

Alone, Together, Dream

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren G. Bennis

Leadership, Vision, Capacity

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Chuck Palahniuk

Truth, Live, Real

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo

Dreams, Paint, Nightmares

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max de Pree

Leader, Between, Last

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.
Desiderius Erasmus

Live, Dream, Face

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.
Shawn Johnson

Time, Focus, Trying

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Ayrton Senna

Best, Same, Cannot

There is no unique picture of reality.
Stephen Hawking

Picture, Unique

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
Deepak Chopra

Single, System, Perception

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

Nature, Important, Feeling

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who does it or who says it.
Malcom X

Patriotism, Wrong, Matter

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Often, Virtues, Vices

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.
Paul Watzlawick

Dangerous, Belief, View

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow

Love, Human, Self

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Nikola Tesla

Today, Through, After

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Change, Eyes, Cannot

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
Lauryn Hill

Work, Hard, Easy

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Miller

Chaos, Written, Score

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Thomas Aquinas

Mind, Drawn, Equivalent

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil

Great, Someone, Attachment

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
Tim Burton

Person, Another

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe

Art, Him, Different

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke

Political, Give, Color

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
Lady Gaga

Live, Between, Times

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse Jackson

Good, Men, Death

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Hope, Real, Bitterness

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