Quotes About Awareness

You put something behind you, Nome, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going." -Mason Carson (Bowes)

you can't fix stupid.' It may be true. But ignorance can be educated.

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You may not see it now, said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.

What's the greatest problem in America today? Is it ignorance or is it apathy?" One time a student answered, "I don't know, and I don't care!

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." —WINSTON CHURCHILL

They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.

I had long ago learned, sometimes to my sorrow, that Scottish piety is accompanied by a complete foreknowledge of sin. That's what we mean by original sin—we don't have to do it to know about it.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Every time I learn the truth about something, I'm disappointed

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

We were just old enough to be warped by childhood and just young enough not to realize it.

So often does it happen that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know there is no key.

Ignorance is not bliss. That platitude is totally wrong. You will not be intellectually happier if you know fewer things. Learning should be a primary goal of living. But what if ignorance feels better—not psychologically, but physically? That would explain a lot of human incongruities.

People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.

I rarely remember the names or faces of nonfictional people.

Let's assume it was Christopher Columbus's "destiny" to discover the New World, and let's pretend he was consciously aware of that fact. What possible difference would that have made in his day-to-day life? He still had to build the boats.

I don't need to personally agree with something in order to recognize that it's true.

Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Everyone's in their own personal coma.

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.