Quotes About Awareness

You have to realize when you've reached the limits of what you can choose to do to change the situation.

It wasn't until later that I would realize that I was babbling a chant of "Ubriacha, ubrius, ubrium," to the Peanuts theme music.

It's a big universe. No one can know it all. - Harry Dresden

Wizard knows what he is talking about." "No, I really don't," I said. "That's the problem." "But you know that you do not know," Michael said. "Which is wise.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

The important things don't need to be said.

Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

I woke up. That surprised me, in itself.

I'm not stupid. I've got eyes. I see some things everyone else tries to pretend aren't there. This vampire craze sweeping the nation. Why the hell shouldn't there be some genuine vampires in it?

I looked, noted details mechanically, and quietly shut the door on the part of my head that had started screaming the second I entered the room.

Three blind men were shown an elephant. They touched it with their hands to determine what the creature was. The first man felt the trunk, and claimed that an elephant was like a snake. The second man touched its leg and claimed that an elephant was like a tree. The third man touched its tail, and claimed that the elephant was like a slender rope." I

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them

Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed." Araris

That's the thing about knowledge, though. The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn.

The clock has superpowers. It always seems to move too slowly. Look up at it and it will tell you the time. Look up an hour and a half later, and it will tell you two minutes have gone by.

I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.

I mean, maybe it isn't all about you. Or at least, not only about you." I stared at her blankly for a moment. "But for that to be true," I said, "I would have to not be the center of the universe.

wolf's fur was speckled with drops of blood that had beaded on it like rain. The gravel in the alley shone in the half-light from the distant street lamps. The wolf's muzzle, a little shorter and broader than I had seen on Wild Kingdom, was drawn back, black lips from fangs striped white and red like peppermints. Its eyes were blue, rather than any proper lupine shade, and gleamed with a sort of demented awareness.

It was that last phrase that did it. It hit me like a bucket of cold water. Maggie.

You don't exactly sleep, in situations like that. You close your eyes and stop moving, and then a lot of complicated things happen in your brain.

but sometimes humans are slow to figure things out, because they are heart-stupid.

Ya te lo dije» preventivos —señalé—. Ahora sí que lo he visto todo.

Please don't assume that I do not realize secrets are being kept from me. Tolerance is not the same as ignorance.

Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them