Conscious Quotes

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Thomas Carlyle)
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. View quote
Saul Bellow
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes. View quote
Emo Philips
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. View quote
James Baldwin
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. View quote
Thomas Nagel
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. View quote
Henri Matisse
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises. View quote
Sigmund Freud
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well. View quote
Eben Alexander
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. View quote
Thornton Wilder
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage. View quote
Alexander Pope
It is. . . axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction. View quote
W. H. Auden
Communication must become total and conscious before we can stop it. View quote
William S. Burroughs
So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle. (Edward Hopper)
While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. View quote
James Baldwin
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed. View quote
John Searle
Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly. View quote
Pitirim Sorokin