Quotes About Awareness

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

When you do something noble and beautiful and no one notices, don't be sad. Sunrise is a beautiful spectacle but without a doubt the greater part of the audience is still asleep.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see

That love is all, that love is everyone It is knowing, it is knowing

You can't keep quiet about anything that's going on in the world, unless you're a monk. Sorry, monks! I didn't mean it!

Es tan ciego porque sólo ve lo que quiere ver.

Lako je živjeti zatvorenih o?iju, ne shva?aju?i ono što vidiš...

semakin banyak yang kau lihat, semakin sedikit yang kau tahu.

Common sense is like oxygen: the higher you go, the thinner it gets.

That aspect of reality of most central concern and importance to human beings is, of course, human beings. And in order to survive and succeed in his fullest capacity as a human being, man must be able to identify his own nature (including his means of knowledge) as well as the nature of the world (or universe) in which he acts.

The Dyslexia Research Centre is in Reading.

There is more information in one edition of the New York Times than the average person in 17th-century England would have come across in a lifetime.

It is impossible to test accurately how long a severed head remains conscious, if at all. The best estimate is between five and thirteen seconds.

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn't aware that when people are showing you guns, they're not threatening you, it's like they're showing you their art collection. For me, at that point, what he was presenting to me was very challenging.

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity.

They knew so little. So little. They knew only that isolation worked. The New York State Training School for Girls had quarantined itself, even requiring people delivering supplies to leave them outside. It had had no cases.

Yet of this massive flow of information no more than about 40 bits per second actually reaches consciousness. We are, in other words, conscious of only a trivial slice of all the information coming into the brain for processing.

good judgment may require the ability to listen carefully to feedback from the body.

The acute attention that ravens pay to our subtle signals underscores the degree to which they can draw conclusions from our body language. They perceive our intentions even though we may not be consciously aware of them.

Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?

Don't assume that everyone on earth has seen every movie you have seen.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.