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Quotes About Awareness

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
~ Ramana Maharshi
As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~ Huston Smith
The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.
~ Frederick Lenz
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
~ John Donne
Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
~ Plato
Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.
~ Laozi
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
~ Ezra Pound
Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
~ Victor Hugo
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
~ Joseph Campbell
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
~ George Santayana
Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.
~ Peter Drucker
Freedom of choice is meaningless without knowledge. That's why it's crucial we all get engaged and get informed.
~ Neil Young
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
~ Horace Mann
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
~ T.S. Eliot
Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.
~ Ludwik Fleck
Gain knowledge. It's valuable.
~ Daniel Norris
Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.
~ Samantha Shannon
Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.
~ Robert Moss
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
~ Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.
~ Athanasius Kircher