Quotes About Awareness

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.

The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

Do you want to know the man against whom you have most reason to guard yourself? Your looking-glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face.

Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no sense today?

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.