Quotes About Awareness

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

Discernment is having the eyes to see, and the ears to hear - and the ability to feel the emotional energy that is Truth.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us.

ah the power that gift would give us, to see ourselves as others see us.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion!

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion!

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

I had continued jotting down good lines—once the eyes and ears are awakened to the possibilities they can't be put back to sleep...

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber (1894–1961)

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Some folks think that Agile is about going fast. It's not. It's never been about going fast. Agile is about knowing, as early as possible, just how screwed we are.

Word gets around." "You mean they communicate?" A third voice. "You bet they communicate. And the next time they do come, you can be sure they'll case the place carefully. We were lucky. These rats hadn't been bothered in years. They'd grown careless.

The Japanese were aware that there was a tendency among these young men to close their eyes just before the crash, a very human reaction to the situation. They were repeatedly exhorted to keep their eyes open and to continue aiming their aircraft to the last moment. It is impossible to forget that these were very young men on both sides of this story.

Without awareness of common pitfalls such as confirmation bias, positive-outcome bias, and subjective validation, a person trained in logic and fallacy detection is easily deceived into thinking that he or she has acquired invincible armor against assaults of unreason. Expressions like post hoc ergo propter hoc and false cause, should be informed by knowledge of evolution and how the brain works to jump to conclusions about causal connections.

At the very least, one would hope that by becoming aware of the many ways our brain can trick us, we would arrive at the conclusion Bertrand Russell thought was a necessary consequence of the limits of knowledge: we should be less cocksure of our beliefs, hold them tentatively, and always be on guard against thinking our feeling of absolute certainty implies we're right.

Accept the fact that sometimes coincidences happen. Clouds sometimes look like horses and clocks sometimes stop for no reason. Resist the urge to find meaning and significance everywhere you look.

Never confuse thoughtlessness with malice.

the question… as always, the question is how to look at the sun without being blinded.

Part of waging war is knowing when you're outgunned.

Consciousness, like matter, like energy, is preserved.

There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.

Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener. Leonardo