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Quotes About Awareness

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
~ Democritus
Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?
~ Thomas Hardy
The mind's the standard of the man.
~ Alan Watts
Well, killing a man isn't clean and quick and simple. It's bloody and awful. And maybe if enough people come to realize that shooting somebody isn't just fun and games, maybe we'll get somewhere.
~ Sam Peckinpah
If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.
~ Baal Shem Tov
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
~ Blaise Pascal
When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me.
~ Jack Gilbert
No man is a devil in his own mind.
~ James A. Baldwin
We rob men of a greater vision of God because we will not give them a lower vision of themselves.
~ Paul Washer
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.
~ George S. Patton
We cannot live without the Earth or apart from it, and something is shrivelled in a man's heart when he turns away from it and concerns himself only with the affairs of men
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
~ Vaclav Havel
Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.
~ Gautama Buddha
A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Little things are great to little men.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Man's consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
~ Zane Grey
... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.
~ Count of St. Germain
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
~ Confucius
All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.
~ Mark Twain