Quotes About Awareness

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.

The author's Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made the world less just.

We can easily forget a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I must go beyond the dark world of sense information to the clear brilliance of the sunlight of the outside world. Once done, it becomes my duty to go back to the cave in order to illuminate the minds of those imprisoned in the 'darkness' of sensory knowledge.

Let him alone, he has a way of stopping anywhere and losing himself without any reason. I believe that he will soon appear; do not therefore disturb him.

True, how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?

Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes.

not to be learned; for all knowledge appears

And surely it is the most blameworthy [b]ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

No estoy distante de definir la sabiduría como el conocimiento de sí mismo, y de hecho soy de la misma opinión del que colocó en el templo de Delfos una inscripción de este género: «Conócete a ti mismo».

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

de dos hombres que caminan juntos, el uno ve lo que el otro no ve».[27]

I know that I know nothing

Because you seem not to be aware that any one who has an intellectual affinity to Socrates and enters into conversation with him is liable to be drawn into an argument; and whatever subject he may start, he will be continually carried round and round by him, until at last he finds that he has to give an account both of his present and past life; and when he is once entangled, Socrates will not let him go until he has completely and thoroughly sifted him.

While I, just as I do not know, do not even suppose that I do. I am likely to be a little bit wiser than he in this very thing: that whatever I do not know, I do not even suppose I know.

It is better to be unborn than untaught: for ignorance is the root of misfortune.

Costoro sanno che la filosofia, accorgendosi del potere di questa prigione, terribile perché opera attraverso i desideri (e per questo chi è prigioniero è complice della sua stessa prigionia), quelli che amano il sapere sanno che la filosofia, prendendo la loro anima in queste condizioni, dolcemente la esorta e cerca di liberarla.

Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light Plato Allegory of the Cave

What do you experience on perceiving yourselves lovely within?

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.