Quotes About Awareness

I only know that I know nothing

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality.

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it.

Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.

Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.

The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit.

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.