Quotes About Awareness

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." (Orwell, "1984")

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and, at the same time, hardest to acquire is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty; seeing, an art.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes.

Hold yourself.. why Winter is coming." Eddard Stark

You used to have the jokes about never fixing the roof until it rained. People were undoubtedly the same now, or worse. They might well wait until something happened that forced them to act; that something would almost certainly be unpleasant—most likely, serious. Yet

Here they had been for twenty-one years merely using water that continued to flow, and yet they had never given any real consideration to where the water came from.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

Opening your eyes is all that is needing. The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

A man who won't listen can't hear.

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

Why ask for truth when you close your ears to it? - Ser Barristan Selmy to Daenerys

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have been a grin. Half his teeth were gone, and half those still left him were broken and splintered. "Theon," he repeated. "My name is Theon. You have to know your name.

Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world.

Con dos ojos puedes verme la cara. Con tres podrías verme el corazón. Con dos puedes ver aquel roble. Con tres podrías ver la bellota de la que nació y el tocón seco en que se convertirá algún día. Con dos no ves más allá de tus paredes. Con tres podrías ver el mar del Verano, al sur, y el norte más allá del Muro

Jon Snow, you know nothing.

The world is full of horrors, Tommen. You can fight them, or laugh at them, or look without seeing...

It was astonishing to see how angry Cersei could wax over accusations she knew perfectly well to be true.