Quotes About Awareness

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

Live and learn, or you don't live long.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.

Now let me get something straight: you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible - because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it. So please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or before you know it you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step downward to complete moral degradation.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

A poisonous snake is not dangerous, not any more than a loaded gun is dangerous—in each case, if you handle it properly. The thing that made that coral snake dangerous was that I hadn't known what it was, what it could do. If, in my ignorance, I had handled it carelessly, it would have killed me as casually and as innocently as a kitten scratches.

Is a virus self-aware? Nyet. How about oyster? I doubt it. A cat? Almost certainly. A human? Don't know about you, tovarishch, but I am.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible—because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

Hendrick, I have explained these matters to you because it is useless to punish a man unless he knows why he is being punished.

These people who deal in fancification to fool the public think nobody can read and write but themselves.

He was looking that way now and the projected print moved along the screen, but he was not really reading but simply avoiding the eyes of his boss across the table. Mrs. Douglas did not read newspapers; she had other ways of finding out what she needed to know.

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in "measurements" when he did not know what he was measuring.

Being aware that he had but a short time to live and having neither Martian nor Kansan faith in immortality, he purposed to live each golden moment as eternity—without

What was "grokking"? He had been using the word for a week—and he didn't grok it.

Be raped quietly, you mean.

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion, in the long run these are the only people who count.

Bir kaplan?n s?rt?nda yolculuk etmenin en önemli kural?, kulaklar?n? asla b?rakmamakt?r.

Can a machine be so frightened and hurt that it will go into catatonia and refuse to respond? While ego crouches inside, aware but never willing to risk it? No, can't be that; Mike was unafraid – as gaily unafraid as Prof.

when you hear the bullet before you hear the gun, you are on the wrong end of the firing.