Quotes About Reality

Even though most investors see their work as active, assertive, and on the offensive, the reality is and should be that stock and bond investing alike are primarily a defensive process. The great secret for success in long-term investing is to avoid serious losses.

Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l'éléphant, - S'il mangeait la souris devant.)

She realized then that time passes, but the imagination remains, even if it does not seem to exist. (Elle comprit alors que le temps passe, mais l'imagination reste, même si cela semble ne pas exister)"

The killer feels invulnerable. In this, he is vulnerable. (Le tueur se croit invulnérable. En cela, il est vulnérable)

The mirror follows us, but it's not a friend. (Le miroir nous suit, - Mais n'est un ami.)

The path of truth has meadows of falsity. (Le chemin de la vérité A des prairies de fausseté.)"

To get out of a dream, just one eye. (Pour sortir d'un rêve, - Suffit d'un seul œil.)

Truth is like a flying bird: It brakes suddenly, it falls to the ground. (Vérité est comme un oiseau qui vole: Il freine d'un coup, il tombe au sol)

We don't look at the Sun of Truth, but we look at the Truth effects. (Le soleil de la vérité Ne se regarde, mais ses effets)

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

It was as true... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

I don't believe there's no sich a person!

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one.

Every man thinks his own geese swans.

Fairy-land to visit, but a desert to live in

It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves and a skeleton of truth that we never did.

What do I know, father,' said Louisa in her quiet manner, 'of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections; of all that part of my nature in which such light things might have been nourished? What escape have I had from problems that could be demonstrated, and realities that could be grasped?' As she said it, she unconsciously closed her hand, as if upon a solid object, and slowly opened it as though she were releasing dust or ash.