Reality Quotes

Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

Very few of us are what we seem.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.

Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.