Quotes About Cognizance

Once you can name something, you're conscious of it. You have power over it. You're in control. You own it.

Fewer people are capable of experiencing things than is commonly supposed.

Darconville drew it all out to this paradox, that on the one hand there are temporary beings whom we love but are ever changing, and beyond them there is the eternal object of love itself which is incorruptible, permanent, and ideal. And yet it is not only through the former that we can take cognizance of the latter, we would, without the former, actually have no idea of the latter, the imperfect relative giving us our only idea of the perfect absolute...

If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit

And Allaah is not unaware of what you do.

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

that made the unfamiliar familiar.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

Don't I know it.

In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace written on paper, or were they written on the hearts of men? And we must ask ourselves as we hear of treaties being written today, whether the treaties of the UN are written with the full cognizance of the fact that those who sign them are responsible before God?

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

What truly differentiates the heavies from the lightweights is not how tough they are, but how aware they are.

I'm painfully aware of my surroundings at all times.

And I knew it. That's the worst part: I knew it.

How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

Of one small circumstance that had occurred, he felt quite sure that Mr. Kennedy knew nothing.

Of all the machines in this great cavern, it was the only one which had shown any cognizance of man, and its greeting seemed a little contemptuous. For on the screen appeared the words: STATE YOUR PROBLEM PLEASE THINK CLEARLY Ignoring the implied insult, Alvin began his story.

It was only now, at this precise moment, that Maigret became fully aware of the situation. He literally saw himself, sitting comfortably in his armchair, his legs stretched towards the fire, warming his glass of armagnac in the hollow of his hand. He realized that it wasn't he who was talking, asking questions, but this short, thin, calm man, the same man who, only a few minutes earlier, had been dragging a dead body to the sea.

It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker.

Punishments hereafter are suffer'd by one's self; and the world takes no cognizance whether this God has reveng'd 'em or not, 'tis done so secretly, and deferr'd so long.

I knew perfectly well what it was about.

She was, of course, aware of him every moment of the evening. She knew exactly with whom he had danced.

Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind. This is precisely the point where our present way of thinking needs to be amended, perhaps by a bit of blood-transfusion from Eastern thought.

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood