Quotes about Reality
Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.
— William James
The turbulent billows of the fretful surface leave the deep parts of the ocean undisturbed; and to him who has a hold on vaster and more permanent realities, the hourly vicissitudes of his personal destiny seem relatively insignificant things. The really religious person is accordingly unshakable and full of equanimity, and calmly ready for any duty that the day may bring forth
— William James
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.
— Helen Keller
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
— Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
— Henry David Thoreau
Never let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
— Les Brown
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
— Les Brown
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?
— Lewis Carroll
You're nothing but a pack of cards!
— Lewis Carroll
But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.
— Lewis Carroll
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.
— Michael Novak