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Reality Quotes

What you believe to be real might not be the same for the other person. Your perception of real can be proved authentic only when your understanding of a particular situation is based on universal laws and norms and not on illusionary beliefs. It is only through the universal laws of nature that an object, situation or phenomenon can be termed as real, rest all turns out to be mere illusion. Surf through these famous reality quotations and sayings to find out whether or not your beliefs are real.

Simone Weil

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

Adolf Hitler

Hate is more lasting than dislike.

Ben Shapiro

Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.

Nikola Tesla

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.

Yoko Ono

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

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Charles Kingsley

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Warren G. Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Michael Schumacher

Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.

Bruce Springsteen

I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Stephen Colbert

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Thomas Hobbes

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Mann

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Bill Watterson

Reality continues to ruin my life.

John Greenleaf Whittier

One brave deed makes no hero.

Charles Kingsley

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

George Carlin

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Robin Williams

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Steven Spielberg

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Christina Ricci

I'm a TV addict, and I personally really enjoy reality TV.

Ethan Hawke

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

James Stewart

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

John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Frida Kahlo

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

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Liza Minnelli

Reality is something you rise above.

Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Christina Ricci

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

Michael Sheen

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality.

Edgar Allan Poe

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

James Spader

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

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Soren Kierkegaard

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

Joe Biden

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Tupac Shakur

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

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Osama bin Laden

Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.

Walt Disney

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Taika Waititi

At the end of the day, the reality is we're all losers, and we're all uncoordinated. We're the worst of all of the animals on earth, and there's something quite endearing about that.

Prince Andrew

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

Jim Morrison

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Thomas Mann

Everything is politics.

Charles Kingsley

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen.

Tim Burton

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

Mukesh Ambani

In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality.

Karen Fukuhara

I believe film and television should reflect our society, and the reality is that there are people in many different shapes and sizes, ethnicities, sexual orientation - the list goes on.

T. S. Eliot

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Charles Lamb

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Thomas Moore

The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.

Karl Urban

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

George Soros

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

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Martin Sheen

I personally am opposed to abortion, but I will not judge anybody else's right in that regard because I am not a woman and I could never face the actual reality of it.

Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Plutarch

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.

Cameron Diaz

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

Lady Gaga

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Noel Fielding

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

Thomas Jefferson

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

You need virtual reality to understand high level science or high level math. It's very helpful to explain third and fourth dimensional things that people are constantly addressing in quantum physics. But, as soon as you're creating an avatar, and you can live and you can start to feel sensations on VR, that has gone too far.

Ice Cube

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

C. S. Lewis

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

Hermann Hesse

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Les Brown

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.

A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for.

Terri Guillemets

Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

Elon Musk

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

Dalai Lama

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

David Lloyd George

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

Charles Kingsley

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.

John Mason Brown

It's getting pretty ridiculous, but what can you do? You've got to have it. You've got to go places. You've got to live your daily life.

Noel Fielding

Fantasy Man's my favourite, I think, because he's sort of like Don Quixote. He lives in a fantasy world, but he gets jolted back into reality, and I guess that's me, really!

Richard Gere

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

Joseph Conrad

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Samuel Johnson

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

Thomas Merton

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Cameron Diaz

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know anything about, or hopefully don't know anything about. I think 'Banshee' gives people a chance to do that pretty safely because we all know there's a solid buffer between the show and reality.

Aaron Sorkin

I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

Anais Nin

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Garrison Keillor

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

Thomas Moore

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Eudora Welty

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

Bastions of free-flowing discussion with civil exchange are the academic ideal. But during my time in academia, it became increasingly clear that prisons of political correctness with peer-engendered public shaming are now the academic reality.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

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Jordan Peele

The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.

John Ruskin

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'.

Les Brown

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

Franklin P. Jones

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

Jimmy Butler

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

The reality is even if you are a hands-on Mayor or Governor or chief executive, at best, you must know about 10 or 20% of what's going on. Otherwise, you never get through the day... I was very hands on, and there's lots of stuff I didn't know, and lots of things that either went wrong or right that I would find out about afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Sylvester Stallone

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

Malcolm X

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

Raul Julia

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

Soren Kierkegaard

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Paulo Coelho

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Henry Miller

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.