Quotes About Awareness

I never experienced much outright anti-Semitism. While we learned about the Holocaust - endlessly, it felt like - no spray-painted swastika ever appeared on my childhood landscape. Jewish persecution was an ever-looming reality, but always an abstract one.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

I am not too much into political awareness, but I had known a lot about Indira Gandhi's strong persona. Obviously, she had a powerful personality and a lot of clarity and wisdom to rule India for so long.

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.

Le journalisme doit remplir deux fonctions : organiser l'espace public mais aussi produire des révélations. Révéler d'abord au sens de tendre un miroir à la société, pour qu'elle prenne conscience de ce qu'elle est véritablement.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

Una humanidad, global o parcial, q no tuviera ninguna conciencia de su pasado sería tan anormal como un individuo amnésico (…) en la medida en q el pasado humano es mal conocido, malinterpretado, los hombres y los grupos de hombres, tiene una visión incorrecta de su presente, ?y de su futuro

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.

Man is the one creature on Earth who knows he will die, and that is an appalling intellectual burden.

Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings?...Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?

He did not think of God nor of his family but remarked to himself, 'Okay, I'm dying.

A WORD TO THE WISE Let the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare. Remember, the only acceptable case for being in any particular place is having no business there.

I'd like to know what this whole show is all about before it's out.

Knowing what Thou knowest not Is in a sense Omniscience.

CANDLE WISDOM If you knew what you will know when your candle has burnt low, it would greatly ease your plight while your candle still burns bright.

We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago.

Most blacks are happy, except those who have had other ideas pushed into their ears.

If any man hopes to do a deed without God's knowledge, he errs.