Quotes About Awareness

Live right behind your eyes. Listen to yourself.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind. —ALPHONSE BERTILLON

how seldom we recognize the sounds when the bolt of our fate slides home.

Es curioso advertir con qué eficacia operan las cosas cuando uno las reconoce. Es curioso observar hasta qué punto es incómodo el regalo del mando.

in the absolute dark she could hear the tiny clicks her eyes made when she blinked.

One Washington axiom, proved more times than the Pythagorean theorem, states that in the presence of oxygen, one loud fart with an obvious culprit will cover many small emissions in the same room, provided they are nearly simultaneous.

The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

how extremely stupid not to have thought of that

QUESTION 2: DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOUR FAMILY SPENDS EACH YEAR FOR FOOD, CLOTHING, AND SHELTER? Almost two-thirds of the millionaires surveyed (62.4 percent) answered "yes" to this question.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

The object of walking is to relax the mind. You should therefore not permit yourself even to think while you walk. But divert your attention by the objects surrounding you.

If Americans desire to be both ignorant and free, they want what never has been and what never will be.