Quotes about Consciousness
do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.
— Henry David Thoreau
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
— Henry David Thoreau
Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
— Herman Melville
If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.
— Bill Johnson
Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are.
— Robin Sharma
Begin to listen to what you say. Don't say anything that you don't want to become true for you.
— Louise Hay
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.
— Stephen Jay Gould
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
— Stephen Covey
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
— Mark Twain
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life of the soul is incalculable.
— Margaret Fuller
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
— Deepak Chopra