Quotes About Awareness

Many of the things we need to do are so obvious they are banal: slow down, do one thing at a time, sleep more. But even though at some level we all know them to be true, we are in fact moving in the opposite direction: toward more speed, more switching, less sleep.

every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.

Reading is a unique form of consciousness, while we read we direct attention outward to the page but also at the same time inwards as we imagine and mentally stimulate.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

A man who does not know a foreign language is ignorant of his own.

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.

The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Zapanjen sam kako sam svjesno, korak po korak, ušao u sve to; kako sam uvijek u tako jasnom svjetlu vidio svoj položaj, a ipak sam postupao kao dijete; kako i sada još jasno vidim, a još uvijek nema ni traga nade da stvari po?u nabolje.

There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action.

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake

Experience is only half of experience

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Am I a god? I see so clearly!

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Every second is of infinite value.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.

How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.