Quotes About Awareness

you didn't know what you didn't know, you could fool yourself pretty easily.

Upton Sinclair?" "Yes. The quote is something like, 'It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." —Robert Pirsig

We'll wait until he crouches down to bind us,

minds had not only detected this subtle sign of arousal," she continued, "but had known it for what it was. And had even managed

The purpose of consciousness—any consciousness—was to achieve infinite comprehension.

talked to himself under his breath fairly frequently, and often couldn't remember where he had left stuff, as though his mind was too powerful to dwell on the mundane.

If an observer could alter the universe by his observation, then didn't the universe require consciousness to even exist?

On some level, the reality of the universe depended on conscious observers.

So maybe he had known she was coming.

Intuition is just your subconscious putting together subtle clues and coming to a conclusion that your conscious mind hasn't quite reached.

If you turn on the light fast enough, you can see the darkness

The truth is that the overwhelming majority of diseases threatening you and your loved ones are preventable, but not effectively treatable.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.

If there was a genuine chance of diminishing racism, sexism or anti-gay sentiment, who would not wish to seize it with every tool and engine at their disposal? The one overwhelming problem with this attitude is that it sacrifices truth in the pursuit of a political goal.

an exhaustion caused by a loss of meaning, an awareness that the civilisation was 'no longer accumulating' but living off a dwindling cultural capital. If that was the case in the late nineteenth century then how much stronger is the case today, when we live on even smaller portions of that inheritance and breathe even further away from the sources that gave that culture energy.

In her 2011 book Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility and Social Justice Pedagogy (2011) Applebaum explains how even white people who are avowedly anti-racist may still be racist. It is just that they are often racist in ways that they have not yet realized.

And the second theme – more important to our purpose here – is that of the predatory, even vampish younger woman preying on the older, more vulnerable, possibly even helpless male. This was a recognized motif throughout most of history and at least as recently as 1989. It is an awareness that it is not only men who can harass women, but men who can also be the subject of harassment from women.

Most people are about as aware of their surroundings as a sea cucumber.

How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.

Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

If we don't truly know what something is programmed to do, chances are it is programming us. Once that happens, we may as well be machines ourselves.

Our current economic crises stem, at least in part, from our inability to recognize the storage bias of the money we use. Since it is the only kind of money we know of, we use it for everything.

If nothing else, living in a digital media environment should help us become more aware of the programming all around us.