Quotes about Awareness
Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.
— Thomas a Kempis
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
— Thomas a Kempis
Sometimes my sin is not what I do; it also describes what I don't do when I know I should.
— Thomas a Kempis
Because our hearts are frivolous and because we ignore our faults we never discover the sickness in our souls, but idly we laugh when we have full reason to weep.
— Thomas a Kempis
In the morning consider that you may not live till evening, and when evening comes do not dare to promise yourself the dawn.
— Thomas a Kempis
If thou seekest Jesus in all things, thou shalt surely find Jesus.
— Thomas a Kempis
Ask not, who hath said this or that, but look to what he says.
— Thomas a Kempis
The spiritually-minded man putteth care of himself before all cares; and he who diligently attendeth to himself easily keepeth silence concerning others. Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed to thyself. If thou think wholly upon thyself and upon God, what thou seest out of doors shall move thee little. Where art thou when thou art not present to thyself?
— Thomas a Kempis
If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest not.
— Thomas a Kempis
given to thee. If it seemeth to thee that thou knowest many things, and understandest them well, know also that there are many more things which thou knowest
— Thomas a Kempis
Knowledge is according to the mode of the one who knows; for the thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the knower.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich