Quotes About Awareness

The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.

As a general rule, irrational people don't know they are irrational.

Realistically, most people have poor filters for sorting truth from fiction, and there's no objective way to know if you're particularly good at it or not. Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That's exactly how you look to them.

What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality?

If your cave-dwelling ancestors were enamored with the beauty of the scenery instead of, let's say, the herd of carnivorous dinosaurs stampeding their way, they would not have survived to create the miracle that is you.

Mental prison: The illusions and unproductive thinking that limit our ability to see the world clearly and act upon it rationally.

Everybody lies to children, even their parents. The day a child realizes that is the day they start becoming an adult.

Stop to consider why your judgement might be wrong.

Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is. It's like you've got your face pressed to it, and all you can see is the small points. The things you want to see.

Run, Bruce! Run from the truth! Run like you always have…but when you feel that prickling on the back of your neck, know that I'm coming for you! Reaching you from the other side of your reflection!

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower. —Rabindranath Tagore, "Stray Birds

Da allora il sole, la luna e le stelle possono continuare tranquillamente il loro corso, io non so se sia giorno o notte, e tutto il mondo svanisce intorno a me.

That the life of Man is but a dream has been sensed by many a one, and I too am never free of the feeling.

Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us.

Ben ayr?m?nda de?ilim: Ne zaman gündüz oluyor, ne zaman gece. Evren etraf?mdan silindi ve sadece o kald?.

Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in the distant past and strive with might and main to recall and restore what is irrevocably lost.

I have spent the day well just looking and looking. It is the same in art as in life. The deeper one penetrates, the broader grows the view.

The highest achievement possible to man is the full consciousness of his own feelings and thoughts, for this gives him the means of knowing intimately the hearts of others.

Pensar!—exclamé. ¿Qué necesidad tenéis de recordármelo, puesto que, piense o no piense, siempre estáis presente en mi alma?

Memory extends as far as our self-interest.

You need just what you do not know, and what you really know is worthless.

Schämt euch, ihr Nüchternen! Schämt euch, ihr Weisen!