Quotes About Awareness

For when you are on the spot, disorders are detected in their beginnings and remedies can be readily applied; but when you are at a distance, they are not heard of until they have gathered strength and the case is past cure.

It is a common fault not to anticipate storms when the sea is calm.

Because, if one is on the spot, disorders are seen as they spring up, and one can quickly remedy them; but if one is not at hand, they are heard of only when they are great, and then one can no longer remedy them.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Men are so thoughtless they'll opt for a diet that tastes good without realizing there's a hidden poison in it.

For once problems are recognized ahead of time, they can be easily cured; but if you wait for them to present themselves, the medicine will be too late, for the disease will have become incurable.

in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure.

Ci sono uomini che sanno tutto, peccato che questo è tutto quello che sanno.

There are actually three kinds of mind: one kind grasps things unaided, the second sees what another has grasped, the third grasps nothing and sees nothing. The first kind is extremely valuable, the second valuable, the third useless.

Si se conocen anticipadamente los males que pueden después manifestarse, lo que no concede el cielo más que a un hombre sabio y bien prevenido, quedan curados muy pronto. Pero cuando, por no haberlos conocido, se les deja tomar un incremento tal que llega a noticia de todo el mundo, no hay ya arbitrio que los remedie.

Z?o, poznane z daleka leczy si? szybko, lecz gdy wskutek tego, ?e nie zosta?o rozpoznane, pozwala si? na jego wzrost, tak ?e ka?dy je rozpozna, nie ma ju? lekarstwa

Cada uno ve lo que pareces ser; pero pocos comprenden lo que eres realmente

Y sucede aquí lo mismo que dicen los médicos acerca de la tisis, que al comienzo del mal es fácil de curar y difícil de diagnosticar, pero, con el paso del tiempo, al no haber sido diagnosticada ni medicada desde el principio, se vuelve fácil de diagnosticar y difícil de curar.

instead of praying for some new holy man to save you, learn the way to Hell in order to steer clear of it yourself.

Ognuno vede quello che tu pari, pochi sentono quello che tu se

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Women aged fifteen through forty-four are more likely to be maimed or die from male violence than from cancer, malaria, traffic accidents, and war combined.

Observation precedes vision.

Know your materials! See the most minute nuances! Savor them! God is in the details.

Once we have learned how to see the world, we have taken only one of the required steps. The point is to change it.

I like it when it's sunny, when it rains, when it snows. I like it when it gets dark early, when it stays light late. There's something beautiful about every moment of every day. All you have to do is make the decision to see the positive, to filter the world.

My father would say 'I think the trouble is that they don't have the ability to see just what it is they are doing.' I would say 'Is that difficult?' My father would laugh and say 'Yes, it's difficult.

ahmo zan nikocitlewa, ahmo zan nikkocitta, amo zan niktemiki, ka ye onimitznottili, mistzinko onitlacis, 'I am not dreaming, not fantasising; for I have seen you, I have looked upon you.