All Quotes By Tag: Reality

“You carry too much hope, and it will canker in your soul like an infection.”

“The arch of history may be long, but it bends away from reality.”

“The arch of history may be long, but it never bends away from reality.”

“It is difficult to be an artist, because what you can see needs to be done and what you can achieve are generally two very opposite things. The two are like yin and yang, north and south, positive and negative. What you see is just totally opposite of what the reality can be, and that’s unfortunate. But there are things we can do. Writers can either repave–we fill in some of the cracks in the road that are already there–or we start to knock down some of the weeds to make a clearing in the wilderness.”

“Există ceva dincolo de reprezentare? Cunoașterea e o fereastră demnă de încredere spre real, sau doar un sistem de sticle opace și împodobite cu figuri care filtrează numai imagini false și umbre îndoielnice de adevăr? Există într-adevăr ceva îndărătul cunoașterii sau nu există nimic, ca și îndărătul vieții? Să fie oare numai o oglindă a ei însăși, scoarță fără trunchi, draperie a golului?”

“When you expect a miraculous life, you will make it a reality.”

“Our dreams are never realized and as soon as we see them betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality. No sooner do we see them betrayed than we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.”

“Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.”

“For those who would die, there is life. For those who would dream, there is reality. For those who would hope, there is knowledge. For those who would grow, there is eternity.”

“I know the tree, I know the cloud. The only stranger is the voice inside my head.”

“Those who see the truth as trouble will end up having to see trouble as the truth.”

“The Truth is harsh, but it will take you out of trash.”

“The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American…(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what’s happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real.”

“In science we may start with experimental results, data, observations, measurements, ‘facts’. We invent, if we can, a rich array of possible explanations and systematically confront each explanation with the facts.”

“Keeping the consistency in seeking knowledge and developing the skills towards achieving your goals are the most important steps in making your dreams come into reality.”