Quotes About Awareness

A nudist? In Edinburgh? Does he realise what parallel we're on?

There are some people who start off knowing very little about the world and end up years later knowing even less. Never underestimate the capacity of the human mind for ignorance." Mr. Woodhouse found this very amusing.

She was, in fact, often wrong--and knew it. Life became difficult when those who were often wrong did not know it.

There are so many things we take in subconsciously and are unaware we ever saw. There is plenty of lumber like that in our minds.

Lions walk on four legs, observed Mma Makutsi. Was this man walking on four legs? That can be a big giveaway, Mma.

The trouble with having a conscience, she said to herself, is that it never sleeps.

There were times, she thought, when 'ah' said everything that needed to be said

She could turn away and say that they had nothing to do with her, or she could accept that they had somehow touched her skirt. ...we all had a skirt, and those who touched our skirt became our concern.

of day it was or how we were feeling, they were

But some of us cannot see love, she said to herself, even when it is there, right before us, asking us to invite it in.

Are we facing a new Dark Age, Angus? Possibly, Lou. A dark age in which our concentration spell is this long.

she realised that he was probably right. Time was running out in so many respects—for our tenancy of a world that we were despoiling at an unsustainable rate as well as for the survival of our species in the face of nuclear proliferation. Obviously, this was evident from Hogget Road, Auchtermuchty, but not necessarily appreciated in the centres of world power. How frustrating it must be, she thought, for Mr. Archibald P. Raeburn to know this and yet to be powerless to do much about it.

people who believed not that the end was coming—as some people did—but that it had actually come, and we had simply failed to notice

A woman sees more than a man sees. That is well-known.

One of the drawbacks to being a philosopher was that you became aware of what you should not do, and

Caution was always required when you looked under a bed—anybody's bed, even your own.

He was one of those people, she thought, who just seemed to know a great deal. And he spoke so wisely, as if had thought for hours about everything he said.

there was something that Isabel had said that always stuck in his mind. Remember what you have and the other person doesn't. It was simple--almost too simple--advice and yet, like all such home advice, it expressed a profound truth.

There were so many lives, she thought, that could only be led with difficulty, with pain, and because we were so bound up in our own lives, so many of these were invisible to us until suddenly we saw, and knew, and felt that sudden pang of human sympathy that comes with knowing.

You had to watch people—if you were not careful, all sorts of people would promote themselves well above their real station in life, causing nothing but confusion and uncertainty

Time, she felt, made quite enough claims on us, without our conniving in its relentless tyranny.

We all have Proustian moments, but don't really know about it until we read Proust.

When you don't talk about something, then something will talk about itself for you.

How do you calibrate pain?" asked Jamie. "By cutting out the background pain of the world," answered Isabel. "By cutting all that out, not registering it, and responding only to those painful things that we can do something about. Because otherwise Ã¢â'¬Â¦