Quotes about Awareness

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Where do you think that I have been?" "A fixture also." "On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire." "In spirit?" "Exactly. My body has remained in this arm-chair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

No invisibles, sino inadvertidas, Watson. No sabÃ

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

But a girl always knows.

A window in Merton's mind let in that strange light of surprise in which we see for the first time things we have known all along.

Therefore, we do not become conscious of the three greatest blessings of life as such, namely health, youth, and freedom, as long as we possess them, but only after we have lost them; for they too are negations.

The more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.

We sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.

The younger we are, the more each individual object represents for us the whole class to which it belongs.

We should rather consider the events, as they happen, with the same eye as we consider the printed word which we read, knowing full well that it was there before we read it.