Quotes About Awareness

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.

We shall keep our horizon perfectly, absolutely, crystallinely open, ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness.

The smaller the drink, the clearer the head.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend is blowin' in the wind.

We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, savour you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky, and want, more than all the world, your return.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.

To be a good diarist, one must have a little snouty, sneaky mind.

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Sickness is felt, but health not at all.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.