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Quotes About Awareness

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.
~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.
~ John Ruskin
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.
~ Charles Morgan, Jr.
What a man does not know is greater than he.
~ Chinua Achebe
A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.
~ Chris Kilham
It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.
~ Christina Hoff Sommers
There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper.
~ Criss Jami
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
~ Edmund Burke
God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.
~ Eknath Easwaran
To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.
~ Ernest Holmes
A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.
~ Louis L'Amour
The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own time. He is the man of integral awareness.
~ Marshall McLuhan
This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.
~ Meister Eckhart
Men never know how tired they are till their wives sit them down for a nice long talk.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
A friend said to me, "I think the weather is trippy." I said, "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it's the way we perceive it." And then I realized I just should have said, "Yeah."
~ Mitch Hedberg
I took benzedrine - I got clairvoyance. With benzedrine you can have a very wide view of the world, like you can decide the destiny of man and other pressing problems, such as which is the left sock?
~ Mort Sahl
All men are potential rapists.
~ Nandita Das
All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
~ Otto Weininger
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson