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Quotes About Awareness

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?
~ Roy Campanella
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.
~ Rumi
God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.
~ Saadi
Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
~ Shmuel Yosef Agnon
We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.
~ Sterling K. Brown
In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, "I am"; but man does not know himself as he is.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.
~ T. S. Eliot
Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me.
~ Wael Ghonim
Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.
~ Eleanor Bron
One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.
~ Alexander Herzen
Now I understand," said the last man.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.
~ Barry Long
All men are Jews, though few men know it.
~ Bernard Malamud
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
~ Bliss Carman
Man is so constituted that he then only excels other things when he knows himself.
~ Boethius
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
~ Booker T. Washington
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity the man who has remained ignorant of love.
~ Siegbert Tarrasch
Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.
~ Theodore Parker
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
~ Thomas A. Edison
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
~ Thomas Carlyle
As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.
~ Vernon Howard
Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.
~ Winston Churchill
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
~ Henrik Ibsen
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
~ Herodotus