Quotes About Awareness

The Emperor's New Clothes.

"But the emperor has nothing at all on!" a little child declared.

"But he hasn't got anything on," a little child said.

Das ist es ja, was ich immer sage: wir sind feige. Wir denken nur an das, was mit uns geschehen wird, nie an das, was den andern geschieht.

everyone ought to be interested in politics. If we all had been, then maybe the Nazis wouldn't have got their hands on power;

Coffins and coffins, enough for everyone on the shift, enough for everyone in Germany! The men are still alive, but they are already making their own coffins.

que somos nosotros los culpables y que no es culpa nuestra que seamos culpables y que somos culpables por ese mismo hecho y que estamos hartos con ello lo sabemos

Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. … I only know two types of wine — red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries — industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

In the mother's smile, it dawns on him that there is a world into which he is accepted and in which he is welcome, and it is in this primordial experience that he becomes aware of himself for the first time.

Such a person can see without "pre-judice", that is, without judging in advance; he will judge only on the basis of what he has really seen for himself

Eski biyografi yazarlar? kahramanlar?n? sadece bilinç yüzeyinde de?erlendirdiler. Hâlbuki bilinçalt?, bilinci taht?ndan etti.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.

Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real… He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand…

We, who live in the cities, see but a little farther than across the street. We spend our days looking at the work of our own and our neighbors' hands. Small wonder our lives have so little of God in them, when we come in touch with so little that God has made.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

In the American Civil War it was a matter of principle that a good officer rode his horse as little as possible. There were sound reasons for this. If you are riding and your soldiers are marching, how can you judge how tired they are, how thirsty, how heavy their packs weigh on their shoulders?