Reality Quotes

I think about things like the fact that nobody knows what time is. Time is what? Nobody can describe it, even physics or math or anything else. But it is what we continuously experience. It's the state of our unfolding, in a way, and in that sense that the continuous reopening of reality is what I think of as, perhaps, a worldview.

~ Marilynne Robinson

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

~ James Nachtwey

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

~ Walter Pater

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

~ Hussein Of Jordan

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.

~ Mark Gatiss

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

~ Warren Bennis

Most of the time, you think the problem is not as big as it is - because it says something negative about you or your company or your leadership. Face the reality: The facts are not as you want them to be.

~ Judy Smith

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

~ Ben Carson

Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.

~ Anne Wojcicki

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas.

~ Ben Wheatley

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

~ Carl Bernstein

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

~ Helen Thomas

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

~ Pope Francis

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

~ Annie Leibovitz

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.

~ Jane Velez-Mitchell

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

~ John Ruskin

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

~ Joyce Meyer

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

~ Czeslaw Milosz

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

~ George Lucas

The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality.

~ Caity Lotz

I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality.

~ Danny Masterson

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

~ Florence Nightingale

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.

~ Ronda Rousey

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

~ Hulk Hogan

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

~ Gro Harlem Brundtland

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

~ Jim Harrison

In general, when you travel, you get into a different reality and are able to more accurately reflect on your ordinary life. Hiking does that for me.

~ John Mackey

I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.

~ Tom Rath

I like to be as positive and as peaceful as possible, but reality says, you know, sometimes you get mad, sometimes you get antsy, sometimes you get aggravated.

~ Musiq Soulchild

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

~ Gottfried Leibniz

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

~ Craig Sager

I just want to make sure that I'm taking roles that are positive, real, honest reflections of African-Americans because I do think the media can put African-American women in the background. Then, unfortunately, what happens is, subconsciously, our culture begins to assess that as reality.

~ Kat Graham

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

~ Sylvester Stallone

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

~ Helen Mirren

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.

~ James Spader

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

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

~ Malcolm X

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

~ Paul Tillich

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.

~ Paulo Coelho