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Quotes About Awareness

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.
~ Gautama Buddha
When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.
~ Zhuangzi
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
When you're truly connecting with wisdom, the more you learn, the more you realize the less you know.
~ Yehuda Berg
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
~ Anatole France
The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.
~ Guy Finley
The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
~ Atisa
The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.
~ Bruce Lee
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
~ Gary L. Francione
When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.
~ Wasif Ali Wasif
Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.
~ Nhat Hanh
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
~ Roger Bacon
I observe and remain silent.
~ Elizabeth I
Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom.
~ Hugo Grotius
Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.
~ Jean Vanier
Take advantage of this human boat; Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream! This vessel will be later hard to find. The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!
~ Shantideva
I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.
~ Colin Quinn
Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am
~ Laura Schlessinger
Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.
~ Mooji