Quotes About Awareness

Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Wonder of wonders! Intrinsically all living beings are Buddhas, endowed with wisdom and virtue, but because men's minds have become inverted through delusive thinking they fail to perceive this.

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

You are so proud of your intelligence," said the master. "You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.

It's a muscle that everybody needs to develop: the ability to see themselves in someone else's circumstances without having to paint that person white, make that person straight, or a man.

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.