Quotes on reality
Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens - his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey - had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light - an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.
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Eleanor Perenyi Quotes
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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John Lennon Quotes
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes.
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Connie Miller Quotes
After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, you begin to worry about history.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
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Tupac Shakur Quotes
What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself.
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Lewis Mumford Quotes
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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Philip K. Dick Quotes
Everything you can imagine is real.
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Pablo Picasso Quotes
How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind?
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Author Unknown Quotes
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.
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David G. Myers Quotes
Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Attitude is more important than reality.
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Elaine Agather Quotes
How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!
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Norman Douglas Quotes
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
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Jessamyn West Quotes
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their "agreement," as falsity means their disagreement, with "reality."
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William James Quotes
The formula "two and two make five" is not without its attractions.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
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Jane Wagner Quotes
It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.
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Andy Warhol Quotes
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
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E.H. Gombrich Quotes
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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T.S. Eliot Quotes
Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?
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Author Unknown Quotes
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
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Louise Nevelson Quotes
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
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Author Unknown Quotes
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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M.C. Escher Quotes
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.
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Edward Abbey Quotes
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Voltaire Quotes
What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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Pablo Picasso Quotes
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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M.C. Escher Quotes
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.
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Katharine Brush Quotes
Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
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Woody Allen Quotes
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
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Woody Allen Quotes