Quotes About Awareness

Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself more clever than others.

The surest way to be cheated is to fancy ourselves more cunning than others.

Death and the sun can't be looked at steadily.

'Tis as easy to deceive ourselves without our perceiving it, as 'tis difficult to deceive others without their perceiving it.

Men are never so easily deceived as when they are endeavoring to deceive others.

Few men know all the ill they do.

Love does not make you weak, because it is the source of all strength, but it makes you see the nothingness of the illusory strength on which you depended before you knew it.

Les bêtes sont ce que l'homme a le plus méconnu et le plus opprimé

Cette année, pareille à tant d'autres, n'avait pas été l'année de la Fin du monde et nul ne songeait à s'en étonner.

Simple remarque. Personne, fût-ce chez les meilleurs chrétiens, ne semble chercher Dieu ni même y penser. On se met à table comme des chiens et on se met au lit comme des cochons. Impossible d'obtenir la moindre attention quand on parle de Dieu.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Fjärilar skola veta att dö medan solen skiner.

White" is seen as the default, the absence of race. ...Whiteness, then, is shrouded in silence. To speak about it openly is to break a taboo.

If I don't know I don't know I think I know If I don't know I know I think I don't know

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a "dream" is going crazy.