Quotes about Reality
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
— St. Jerome
Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?
— Virginia Woolf
Death is a mighty, universal truth.
— Charles Dickens
Man can certainly keep on lying (and does so), but he cannot make truth falsehood.
— Karl Barth
We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.
— Tim LaHaye
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
— Carl Sagan
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.
— William James
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
— Jack Kerouac
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
— Frederick Buechner
Truth happens to an idea.
— William James
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract
— William James
Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.
— Greg Koukl