Quotes About Awareness

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

We know too much for one man to know too much.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises.

I never knew any man cured of inattention.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

As a wise man once said: Wherever you go, there you are.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

The man of control lives in choice, and the man of understanding lives in choicelessness.

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

Beware the man who doesn't ask you any questions about yourself on your first date.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.