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Quotes About Consciousness

You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.
~ Jim Carrey
God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
~ Rumi
In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The first element of change is awareness. You can't change something unless you know it exists.
~ T. Harv Eker
Whatever we know without inference is mental.
~ Bertrand Russell
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
~ Aldous Huxley
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.
~ Michel de Montaigne
To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.
~ Meher Baba
And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.
~ Herman Melville
And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
~ Khalil Gibran
The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge.
~ Adolf Hitler
There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
~ Franz Kafka
Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.
~ Anton Zeilinger
Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.
~ Edwin Muir
When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.
~ Dan Brown
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.
~ Georges Bataille
Self knowledge is always bad news.
~ John Barth
Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.
~ V. S. Subramanya Iyer
None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
~ Frederick Lenz
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.
~ Annie Besant
The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.
~ Henry David Thoreau
We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.
~ Heraclitus
These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.
~ Frederick Lenz