Quotes About Reality

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

The modern history of economic theory is a tale of evasions of reality.

Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.

Rumors are the children of truth.