Quotes About Awareness

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

Man's chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.

When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?