Quotes about Reality
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.
— John Keats
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
— John Keats
Our goal must be, not to gain a divine knowledge of reality, but to obtain a human knowledge sufficient to carry out whatever calling God has given each of us.
— John Frame
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
— Ayn Rand
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
— George Bernard Shaw
The real deal is always going to win in the end.
— Bill Hybels
I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and that our lives, our all too brief lives, at the very least will be complex if not difficult.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Our intention creates our reality.
— Wayne Dyer
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.
— John Ortberg
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
— George Bernard Shaw