Quotes About Awareness

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am, then I won't see it.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Lord, you know how busy I must be this day. If I forget you, do not you forget me.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.