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Quotes About Awareness

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
~ T. S. Eliot
President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.
~ Oliver North
A man who knows he is a fool is not a great fool.
~ Chuang-tzu
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
~ Thomas Mann
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
~ Ethel Watts Mumford
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
~ Aldous Huxley
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
~ Democritus
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
~ Gertrude Atherton
To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
~ Hermann Hesse
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
~ William Davenant
Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
~ David Hilbert
Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time.... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'
~ Harold B. Lee
To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.
~ Meher Baba
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
~ Moliere
There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
~ Edward Teller
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.
~ Neil Harbisson
And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.
~ Herman Melville
There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.
~ Sri Aurobindo