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Quotes About Awareness

For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
~ Umberto Eco
The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?
~ Umberto Eco
T?t c? m?i th?, k? c? có v? t?m phào, má»™t ngày nào Ä'ó cÅ©ng có th? tr? nên h?u ích. ?i?u quan tr?ng là bi?t ???c Ä'i?u mà ng??i khác không bi?t là b?n bi?t.
~ Umberto Eco
To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are.
~ Umberto Eco
Hay cosas que ves venir, no es que te enamores porque te enamoras, te enamoras porque en ese período tenías una desesperada necesidad de enamorarte. En los períodos en que tienes ganas de enamorarte debes fijarte bien dónde te metes: como haber bebido un filtro, de esos que hacen que uno se enamore del primero que pasa. Podría ser un ornitorrinco.
~ Umberto Eco
Porque no todas las verdades son para todos los oídos, ni todas las mentiras pueden ser reconocidas como tales por cualquier alma piadosa
~ Umberto Eco
Privado de vuestra mirada soy ciego pues no me veis, mudo pues no me hablàis, desmemoriado pues de mì no acordàis
~ Umberto Eco
Pengetahuan tidak hanya terdiri atas mengenai apa yang harus dan dapat kita lakukan, tetapi juga tahu apa yang mungkin tidak usah dilakukan (Kata Willian dalam The Name of the Rose)
~ Umberto Eco
I lost myself in the contemplation of nature, trying to forget my thoughts and to look only at beings as they appear, and to forget myself, joyfully, in the sight of them.
~ Umberto Eco
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
~ Umberto Eco
European identity, it seems, is only perceived by educated people. And that is sad, but it is a start.
~ Umberto Eco
He replied that when your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies. I reflected that this is why the simple are so called. Only the powerful always know with great clarity who their true enemies are.
~ Umberto Eco
Pero los periódicos ¿siguen las tendencias de la gente o las crean? —Ambas cosas, señorita Fresia. La gente al principio no sabe qué tendencia tiene, luego nosotros se lo decimos y entonces la gente se da cuenta de que la tiene.
~ Umberto Eco
How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon!
~ Umberto Eco
Qu'est-ce qui vous effraie le plus dans la pureté? — La hâte.
~ Umberto Eco
At most, recognizing that our history was inspired by many tales we now recognize as false should make us alert, ready to call constantly into question the very tales we believe true, because the criterion of the wisdom of the community is based on constant awareness of the fallibility of our learning.
~ Umberto Eco
Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.
~ Umberto Eco
You have to seize Opportunity instinctively, without knowing at the time that it is the Opportunity. Is
~ Umberto Eco
And that will be full knowledge, the learning of the singular.
~ Umberto Eco
tüm dilleri konuÅŸtuÄŸunu, ama hiçbirini bilmediÄŸini anlad?m.
~ Umberto Eco
Si se difundiera la idea de que, al contaminar el mundo, no solo se perjudica a las ballenas sino también (perdonen el tecnicismo) a la polla, creo que asistiríamos a repentinas conversiones al ecologismo.
~ Umberto Eco
Se por acaso se espalhasse a ideia de que a poluição no mundo compromete não só as baleias mas também (desculpem o tecnicismo) os perus, acho que teríamos súbitas conversões ao ecologismo.
~ Umberto Eco
Yaln?z güçlüler, gerçek düÅŸmanlar?n?n kimler olduklar?n? her zaman aç?k seçik olarak bilirler.
~ Umberto Eco
It's quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.
~ Umberto Eco