Quotes About Awareness

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

It is only through imagination that men become aware of what the world might be; without it, 'progress' would become mechanical and trivial.

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.

We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he's eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

The greatest education man has to learn is the science of self.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

If vitality gives a man's perspectives color, if community bonds give them breadth, if awareness of the land makes them realistic, a deep sense of loyalty gives them personal meaning and integrity.

There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.