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Quotes About Awareness

There is nothing new in this world other than the history that you don't know yet.
~ Julian Assange
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
~ Immortal Technique
The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
~ James W. Loewen
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.
~ Norman Lear
Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.
~ Lily Tomlin
Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.
~ Tim Wise
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
~ James W. Loewen
The turning point in history will be the moment man becomes aware that the only god of man is man himself.
~ Henri de Lubac
He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
~ Jules Michelet
Silence ensures that history repeats itself.
~ Erin Gruwell
The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.
~ Simon Wiesenthal
Those who do not know history will forever remain children
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
~ Will Durant
I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.
~ Clint Eastwood
If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 'Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.'
~ Esther Hicks
We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.
~ Carl Jung
If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
~ Alice Walker
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
~ Michael Crichton
They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.
~ Franz Kafka
I know one thing, that I know nothing.
~ Socrates