- Quotations on Awareness (19/38)
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A garland of quotes
(19 of 38 on this topic in my main collection) about awareness collected by Rob Kall,
excerpted from his collection of 10,000+ quotes on Disk-- Kall's Quotations; Wise Advice
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- "All men desire by nature to know."
- Aristotle
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- "It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.''
- Ball, Lucille
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- "Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."
- Borne, Ludwig (two dots over o) (1786-1837)
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- Paradigms are difficult to perceive. They are also so deeply internalized that many of
their components remain out of awareness. This situation can be put to use in discovering
them: argumentation and ferment within disciplines often occurs, so to speak, at the
"fault line" between paradigms. Yet, because a paradigm so deeply creates
"reality," people feel challenged by its discussion and often experience
surprise, disbelief, resistance, or defensiveness.
- Claire Monod Cassidy, article; Unraveling the Ball of string: Reality, Paradigms, and
the study of alternative medicine. in Advances, vol 10, #1, 1994
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- The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with
revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred
from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
- William Channing
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- Animals awaken first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake up before their faces do.
The animal sleeps within its body; man sleeps with his body in his mind.
- Chazal
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- Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself as something
wholy different from the profane ...the history of religions...is constituted by a great
number of ..manifestations of sacred realities. ...in each case we are confronted by the
same mysterious act-- the manifestation of something of a wholly different order, a
reality that does not belong to our world, in objects that are an integral part of our
natural "profane" world.
- Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane
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- He knows the universe and doesn't know himself.
- La Fontaine, Fables, VIII., 26 Democrite et les Abderitains
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- He who would cure his ignorance must confess it.
- Montaigne, Michel De, Essais, III
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- A mark of the spiritually advanced is their awareness of their own laziness.
- M. Scott Peck, TRLT
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- "The life which is unexamined is not worth living."
- Plato, APOLOGY OF SOCRATES
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- "Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
- And things unknown proposed as things forgot."
- Pope, Essay on Criticism, pt.iii, 1, 15
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- Pleasures of achievement demand difficulties such that beforehand success seems doubtful
although in the end it is usually achieved. This is perhaps the chief reason why a
modest estimate of one's own powers is a source of happiness. The man who underestimates
himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates
himself is just as often surprised by failure. The former kind of surprise is
pleasant, the latter unpleasant.
- Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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- "Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps a few know
their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold
which the owner knows not of."
- Swift
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- "The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself."
- THALES
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- Consciousness of our powers augments them.
- Vauvenargues
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- "Who has deceived thee so oft as thyself?"
- Franklin, Benjamin, POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC
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- "There is really no enjoyment other than in being aware of our powers and using
them, and the greatest pain is to become aware of their lack when they are needed."
- Schopenhauer
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- "Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an
interior survey of your good selves"
- Shakespeare, William, Coriolanus
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