Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Reality.
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
Al Lee
To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
Hubert Humphrey
Our intention creates our reality.
Wayne Dyer
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There was once a man in China who liked pictures of dragons. His clothing and his furniture were therefore accordingly adorned with dragons. This deep affection for their kind was brought to the attention of the Dragon Lord, who one day sent a real dragon to stand outside the man's window. It is said that he probably died of fright.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, from Hagakur
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Jorge Luis Borges
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us.
Thomas Merton
I believe that sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
Garrison Keillor
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
Kahlil Gibran
Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
Thomas Carlyle
Reality is inside the skull.
George Orwell
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values -- that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
Victor Hugo
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
Plautus
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
Huston Smith
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.
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The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
