Quotes about Awareness
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
— Thomas Jefferson
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
— Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
— Thomas Jefferson
A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.
— Thomas Jefferson
the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
— Thomas Jefferson
No people who are ignorant can be truly free.
— Thomas Jefferson
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
— Thomas Jefferson
If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.
— Thomas Merton
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
— Thomas Merton
Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat . . . Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that.
— Thomas Merton
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
— Thomas Merton
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
— Thomas Merton