Quotes About Awareness

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

Opowie?? o m?odo?ci W?adys?awa Gomu?ki przypomina socrealistyczn? nowelk?. Bieda a? piszczy i z tej biedy rodzi si? proletariacka ?wiadomo??.

You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

Behold! human beings living in an underground den…. Like ourselves… they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

Science is nothing but perception.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

With a grain of salt.

The smallest evil if neglected, will reach the greatest proportions.

When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one.

He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone, is a man among brutes. But he who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy is a God among men.

you have to have unhappiness to know what happiness is.

Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

All men, while they are awake, are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

The biggest mistake we make is to think we have all the time in the world.

The insula is the heart of subjective emotional experience. It's the brain region where our perception of what's happening to us matters more than what's really happening to us. The

There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking except one of thankfulness. The nature of the tea itself is that of no-mind.