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Reality Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth…
- He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination…
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
- The process is the reality.
- It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
- To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
More Reality Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong