Quotes about Awareness

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.

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.