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Quotes About Realization

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish
~ William Carlos Williams
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?
~ Tamora Pierce, Street Magic
...and then she realized: they WERE all alike!
~ Anne Taintor
The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.
~ Aldous Huxley
Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.
~ Ann Aguirre
Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
~ Charlotte Bronte
A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.
~ Donnie Wahlberg
The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.
~ Douglas Adams
Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.
~ Eric Hoffer
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.
~ Ernest Hemingway
all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!
~ Frederick Franck
Your love is all that I was waiting for and now that I feel it ...oh man...what I thought was not even quarter of what I thought it really was.
~ Gary Lawyer
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
But, when tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent universe we inhabit.
~ Nigel Calder
Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
~ Philip Gilbert Hamerton