Quotes About Awareness

I was starting to buy into my own sort of stereotype in a way.

There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.

As Orwell once wrote, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"—most especially, for him, facts that they did not want to acknowledge.

Because I do not know the names of things, I do not express them.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Facts and truth go hand in hand, propaganda just makes people angry without knowing the truth. Propaganda is like blowing smoke in the face, it pisses you off, but then it's gone, facts linger and sooner or later you'll have to face them.

Dion, "A Sicker Fall River Eases Its Pain By Getting High," Fall River Herald-News, October 4, 2015.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Health is not valued until sickness comes.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

The only knowledge perfectly acquired is the knowledge of our limitation.

Perhaps the most general and most important mental habit to instill is an appreciation of the folly of trying to draw conclusions from incomplete and unrepresentative evidence. An essential corrollary of this appreciation should be an awareness of how often our everyday experience presents us with biased samples of information.

But the wisest person in the room, or around the negotiating table, knows enough not to fall prey to naïve realism and simply assume that meanings are fixed, and shared

Still as they run they look behind,They hear a voice in every wind,And snatch a fearful joy.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

Some truths hit harder than others.

It's not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by the awareness that nothing will improve. No coming days will dawn brighter than the last that dawned, and this sorrow is further deepened by a fear of death…

She was a woman of extended silences, I noticed, and she said very little as we walked the streets of La Boca, looking at its brightly colored houses. It was as if she understood that quiet observation was the key to knowing a place, perhaps even the key to life.

Reality has a way of summoning the shadows," I tell him. Fareem laughs his worldly laugh. "Is that the

While awareness of global governance problems is arguably rising, even most of the educated public is rather unaware of the detail of how global policies are actually carried out. Marginal

So little cause for carolingsOf such ecstatic soundWas written on terrestrial thingsAfar or nigh around,That I could think there trembled throughHis happy good-night airSome blessed hope, whereof he knewAnd I was unaware.