Quotes About Awareness

Has anything bad ever happened in YOUR life? Anything bad that could have been stopped, if only someone had been paying better attention?...And you, Kanan? Is there something bad that could have been prevented, if someone had been watching over you?...EVERYBODY'S got something like that.

Keep moving! Destroy barriers! See everything!

Is there something bad that could have been prevented if someone'd been watching over you?

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

The slavery of ignorance is as wicked as any other kind. Perhaps it's the crudest slavery of all, because any man can see an iron cuff on his own leg, but it's hard to detect an invisible one." She watched for a reaction.

Had she been guided by some unexpressed belief that Negroes were somehow unfit for a white woman to touch? She didn't know, but this moment in the gray morning jarred her to awareness. Rosalie felt no different from any other child hurting.

I cannot describe the change nor do I know when it took place, yet I know that there is a change for I look on the carcass of a man now with pretty much such feeling as I would were it a horse or hog.

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

Effective decision makers are distinguished not so much by the superior extent of their knowledge as by their being aware of its limitations.

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.

Fino a che una cosa non ci ammala, non la capiamo.

Ignatius, what's all this trash on the floor? That is my worldview that you see. It still must be incorporated into a whole, so be careful where you step.

I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora's Box.

I thought that the vibrissae about my nostrils detected something unique while I was outside.

Get out of that womb-house for at least an hour a day. Take a walk, Ignatius. Look at the trees and birds. Realize that life is surging all around you. The valve closes because it thinks it is living in a dead organism. Open your heart and you will open your valve.

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness... & ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. –

And in unraveling the complex we should always be careful not to overlook the obvious. John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society.

Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.

And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay.

Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I had not been able to identify its presence.

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.