Reality Testing Quotes

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it's also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.

The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

If you're wondering if you're dreaming, you're dreaming.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...

I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.

Perception and reality are two different things.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.

Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Sanity - a trick of agreement