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Quotes About Awareness

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
~ Israel Zangwill
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.
~ Italo Svevo
Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.
~ James Johnson
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man is what he does with his attention and mine is not for sale.
~ John Ciardi
No man is the wiser for his learning
~ John Selden
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
~ John Stuart Mill
Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.
~ John Wesley
A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.
~ Lawrence LeShan
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.
~ Loren Eiseley
Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.
~ Luc de Clapiers
How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!
~ Lucan
Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.
~ Morris Chestnut
He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
~ Norman Cousins
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.
~ Pope John Paul II
Silence is the space where man wakes up.
~ Rajneesh
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson