Quotes About Reality

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

If you live with the limited beliefs of your mind, you cannot see life, beyond the physical existence, while in reality, the life happens at a much deeper level.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

?Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Americans live not by facts, but by a lengthy list of myths.

If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion may become reality.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality

Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.