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Quotes About Awareness

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.
~ Albert Einstein
Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms
~ Al-Ghazali
The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.
~ Tariq Ramadan
There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.
~ George Jones
If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.
~ Jackie Gleason
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
~ Ken Blanchard
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.
~ Al-Ghazali
In ignorance, I am something; in understanding, I am nothing; in love, I am everything.
~ Rupert Spira
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, The ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.
~ Dogen
The greatest wisdom is to get to know oneself.
~ Galileo Galilei
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
~ Eric Berne
The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.
~ Shakti Gawain
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
~ Gautama Buddha
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession.
~ Laozi
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
~ Eckhart Tolle
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.
~ Max Planck
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Bertrand Russell
To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.
~ Socrates
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
~ Confucius
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
~ Plato