Quotes About Awareness

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

A person hears only what they understand.

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

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

Was ich weiß, kann jeder wissen. Mein Herz hab' ich allein.

Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiß nichts von seiner eigenen.

The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

We would not say very much in company if we realized how often we misunderstand what others say.

Was ich besitze, seh ich wie im Weiten, Und was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten.

Ein guter Mensch in seinem dunklen Drange Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst.

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.

All our most honest toil succeeds only in unconscious moments. For how would the rose blossom if it were aware of the splendor of the sun!

Yes, one is on the right track when one does not know what one is thinking when one is thinking; everything is handed to one, as it were.

No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Throughout their whole existence men are blind; So, Faust, be thou like them at last.