Top 1200 False Reality Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety- nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible.

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

The real you is on the side of God against the false self

The dignity of a woman's life is infinite, her status immeasurable, her capacity unbounded, her role divine...In the fast changing world of today her vision penetrates into the reality of the far beyond, the reality which endures beyond change.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'

Many a false step was made by standing still.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

Dances without purpose have false starts and stops.

In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive.

Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

True happiness consists in eliminating the false idea of 'I'.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

I do not mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing, but I am suspicious regarding the image of reality which our senses convey to us, and which is incomplete and limited. Our eyes have developed such as to survive. It is merely coincidence that we can see stars with them, as well.

That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

The illusion of selfhood, ego, a separate identity is false.

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.

It is wrong if nearly every time we hear a black or Asian actor portraying their lives they are actually speaking the words of someone who has never experienced their reality. And to effectively silence disabled people from telling their own truth on film or TV is close to criminal and will not help wider society understand their reality.

Many a false step is made standing still.

We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias.

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.

Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.

I will not lie to you. These false attacks are absolutely hurtful.

All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

The best apology against false accusers is silence.

Wowers never speede well, that have a false harte.

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

I prefer to be hated than be false and fool people.

I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado.

I've had my fill of media sensationalism and false promises.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you.

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

.. Fear is often described as False Evidence Appearing Real.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency which is to anticipate reality by imagining it, or to flee from it by idealizing it. That is why we [Europeans] shall never inhabit true fiction; we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.

God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.

I felt bad for everybody I hurt with my false testimonies.

I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me understand my own loss of innocence.

All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.

It's dangerous that we can all paint a completely false picture of ourselves.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.