Quotes About Awareness

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

The only history that matters is the history we know.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.

History is a means of access to ourselves.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.

I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever.

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

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.