Realization Quotes

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. (Iris Murdoch)
The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization. View quote
Hans Hofmann
If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion, peace. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired. View quote
Stephen Hawking
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. View quote
Edward Abbey
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. View quote
Emmet Fox
Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself. View quote
César Vallejo
War is the ultimate realization of modern technology. View quote
Don DeLillo
I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values. View quote
Benjamin Spock
The history of human knowledge is nothing more than the realization that yesterday's pieties are actually shameful errors. (Glenn Greenwald)
To believe that is we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The present stage redefines the possibilities of man and nature in accordance with the new means available for their realization. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project” of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. View quote
Arthur Henderson
It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. View quote
Emmet Fox
At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all. View quote
Ernst Toller
This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization. View quote
Leon Jouhaux
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization. View quote
Denis Waitley
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. View quote
Earl Nightingale
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream. (Adam Schiff)
For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue. View quote
Solomon Ortiz
on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative - full realization for all individuals. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies. View quote
José Martí
I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We're capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening. View quote
Alicia Keys