Wide-awake Quotes

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. (Octavio Paz)
Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another? View quote
Tom Perrotta
A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
That a man can change himself...and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson) View quote
Rhonda Byrne
.. I am so often showing my work in Germany that I belong to the German moderns... I openly want to confess you that I don't value the new painting in my home country very much. That is why I don't have a lot of acquaintances among the painters. Everything here is so little progressive. People's life is to easy here. It is very difficult to keep wide-awake since all are sleeping here. I feel much more at home in Germany. View quote
Jacoba van Heemskerck
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
All these things we have to do in the midst of other nations who are striving by our side, envying our Empire, occupying our markets, encroaching upon our sphere, and whose efforts, unless we are wide-awake and united and enterprising, will end in diminishing still further our means of supporting our vast industrial population. View quote
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury