Quotes About Awareness

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

Fear is incomplete knowledge

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.

A great many men are mad, and no one knows it. They do not know it themselves

One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

You can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

One never quite allows for the moron in our midst.

One's own troubles sharpen one's eyes sometimes.

You tell your lies and you think nobody knows. But there are two people who know. Yes- two people. One is le bon Dieu - and the other is Hercule Poirot

Use your eyes. Use your ears. Use your brains---if you've got any. And, if necessary--act.

To see ourselves as others see us!

Everybody is very much alike, really. But fortunately, perhaps, they don't realise it. - Miss Marple

Miss Marple always sees everything. Gardening is as good as a smoke screen, and the habit of observing birds through powerful glasses can always be turned to account.

But some people, I suspect, remain morally immature. They continue to be aware that murder is wrong, but they do not feel it. I don't think, in my experience, that any murderer has really felt remorse … And that, perhaps, is the mark of Cain. Murderers are set apart, they are 'different'—murder is wrong—but not for them—for them it is necessary—the victim has 'asked for it,' it was 'the only way.

Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing.

It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.

With a shock Iris realized suddenly that it was the first time in her life she had ever thought about Rosemary. Thought about her, that is, objectively, as a person. She had always accepted Rosemary without thinking about her. You didn't think about your mother or your father or your sister or your aunt. They just existed, unquestioned, in those relationships. You didn't think about them as people. You didn't ask yourself, even, what they were like.

But I always find it prudent to suspect everybody just a little. What I say is, you really never know, do you?

Do you know this part of the world well?

One takes things for granted too much," said Emily Brent.