Quotes about Awareness

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

Morning is when I'm awake, and there is dawn in me.

To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine...So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! I well-nigh sunk all my capital in it, and lost my own breath into the bargain, running in the face of it.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful, while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless beside being ugly. Which is the best man to deal with, he who knows nothing about a subject, and what is extremely rare, knows that he knows nothing, — or he who really knows something about it, but thinks that he knows all?

Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

It is the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.