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Quotes About Awareness

Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it.
~ Spanish proverb
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
~ Carl Rogers
Too often when conscience tries to speak, the line seems to be busy.
~ Anonymous
Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.
~ Owen Meredith
Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
~ Erik Erikson
Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.
~ Victoria Ocampo
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
~ Margaret Chase Smith
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
~ Bess Myerson
If you don't concentrate, you'll end up on your rear.
~ Tai Babilonia
For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.
~ Bhagaved Gita
While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.
~ Franklin P. Adams
Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.
~ Anonymous
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred, and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
~ Samuel Butler
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
~ Walter Bagehot
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
~ Margaret Halsey
Silence is one great art of conversation.
~ William Hazlitt
He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.
~ Thomas Fuller
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
~ James Thurber
None are so blind as those who will not see.
~ Anonymous
This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.
~ Victoria Lincoln
I do not seek. I find.
~ Pablo Picasso
Said the pot to die kettle, "Get away, blackface."
~ Miguel de Cervantes
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
~ Polish Proverb
It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.
~ Thomas Hood