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Quotes About Awareness

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.
~ Joseph Delaney
Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.
~ Nelson Mandela
The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don't know.
~ Leonard Sweet
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.
~ Ramana Maharshi
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the hundred-acre field in a corner of which she is scratching.
~ Charles Darwin
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
~ Mirra Komarovsky
Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
~ Hamza Yusuf
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
~ Aristotle
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
~ Meister Eckhart
There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
~ Bill James
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
~ Idries Shah
Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.
~ Alice Walker
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
~ Ivan Panin
We venture to make the assertion that there is but one sin: IGNORANCE, and but one salvation: APPLIED KNOWLEDGE.
~ Max Heindel
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.
~ John de Ruiter
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
~ Yehuda Amichai
I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.
~ Tracy Morgan
If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.
~ Dalai Lama
I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice.
~ T. S. Eliot
Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
~ Laozi
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
~ Will Rogers
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
~ Will Durant
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence.
~ Giacomo Casanova