Quotes About Awareness

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

I'm too old to know everything

Nothing, he knew, was ever free.

Aber das ist das Problem mit dem Alter: Man hat ein Gefühl, aber kein Datum. Und wenn man das Datum ausgräbt, verliert man das Gefühl.

Perhaps she could use the sounds, punctuate them with some of the other birdsong she had taped, but the more she thought about it, the more convinced she was that sound was something to leave alone, that it was not the bulldozers nor the olive trees nor the buzzing strobe lights that needed attention, but the quietness itself.

it struck me that maybe the young girl had just been a prostitute. I felt a momentary sigh of gratitude, and then the awareness stopped me cold, the walls pulsed in on me. How cheap was I?

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

If you start forgetting you're already lost.

Moriarty: . . .everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.

Si hanno due vite. La seconda comincia il giorno in cui ci si rende conto che non se ne ha che una.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

You will never know how sharp a sword is unless it's drawn from its sheath

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.