Quotes About Awareness

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

I recognize as a man there's a lot of things that I don't have to think about. But I'm thinking about them now.

I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.

...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.

I'm not doing anything, and yet I'm also doing the most important thing a man can do: I'm listening to what I needed to hear from myself.

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

The wise man guards against the future as if it were the present.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.]

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

The more aware a man is of a woman's body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.

Man seeks answers from afar Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets but has not even gone into the silence of his being

In my vision, the thing that man needs first and foremost is a meditative consciousness.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.