Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas Sowell

Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.
Jonas Salk

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
Jonas Salk

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

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

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.
Mike Myers

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader

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

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain

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

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
Fran Lebowitz

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
Maimonides

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
Garrison Keillor

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

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
Leon Trotsky