Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl SaganI don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.
Billy GrahamI just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.
J. ColeI can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Carl SaganRisk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Warren BuffettI am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.
Conor McGregorThe funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.
Kevin HartNot many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
Christopher HitchensThe wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.
Robert GreeneWhen I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWe must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
Alice WalkerThe ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
AristotleThe thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.
Margaret AtwoodTo be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.
William JamesNo one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
Charles SpurgeonA black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Maya AngelouWhen all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWhen I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.
Angelina JolieWhen ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
Will RogersHere at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
Barack ObamaBack when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.
Richard BransonPeople talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.
Leonardo da VinciI think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.
Jimmy CarterThe sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.
DiogenesThe eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas CarlyleYou know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.
Warren BuffettRead about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.
Jim MattisEnlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.
Thich Nhat HanhI think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
Elon MuskHistory will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
Christopher ColumbusWhen you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.
John LennonIt isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
Gilbert K. ChestertonGravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.
Isaac NewtonTo correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.
Albert CamusOne of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas SowellPeople only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo EmersonA squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
Mark ZuckerbergModern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.
Nikola TeslaIn just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.
Jeff BezosI wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
Jimmy CarterWhenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas JeffersonMeditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiWhere sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin FranklinNo notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
AristotleThe nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.
Bill GatesThe ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.
Dolores HuertaOne of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.
Mark ZuckerbergOur global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.
Robert KiyosakiHe who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert EinsteinWhat we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
Ronald ReaganPresident Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.
Thomas SowellWhen you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.
Thich Nhat HanhPeople are more aware now of cities and of different ways of life. I suppose the writing I do is a bit in the past, and I’m not sure it’s the kind of writing I would do if I were starting now.
Alice MunroThe extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon BonaparteThe awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy CarterDepression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.
Dolly PartonWhether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Dalai LamaI think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.
Lou Holtz