94 Unaware Quotes

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Famous Unaware Quotes

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light. — Bruce Lee

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light — Ibn Arabi

The ignorant person is totally blind he does not appreciate the value of the jewel — Guru Gobind Singh

They don't know it, but they are doing it. - Karl Marx

They don't know it, but they are doing it. — Karl Marx

Most ignorance is invincible ignorance.We don't know because we don't want to know. — Aldous Huxley

The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers. — Milton H. Erickson

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. — Euripides

Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious — Carl Jung

He knows the universe and does not know himself. — Jean De La Fontaine

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity. — Alexander Fleming

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. - James Clerk Maxwell

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. — James Clerk Maxwell

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. - Simon Bolivar

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction. — Simon Bolivar

A frog in a well does not know the great ocean. — Japanese Proverbs

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health. — Lao Tzu

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Short Unaware Quotes

  • All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber
  • The world is not a problem; the problem is your unawareness. — Osho
  • I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history. — Vivienne Westwood
  • The most dangerous negotiation is the one you don't know you're in. — Chris Voss
  • The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either. — Ricky Gervais
  • Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it. — Marc Bolan
  • I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. — Alexander Pope
  • It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations. — C. S. Lewis
  • I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. — Walter Russell

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Unaware quote All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Caught Unaware Quotes

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. — Ibrahim Babangida

The development of fast film allowed the subjects of our photographs to be caught unawares, beyond our or their control. But they are nevertheless caught; the camera holds the last lanyard of control we would forgo. — Stanley Cavell

... when caught unawares I usually tell the truth, and what's duller than that? — Iris Murdoch

Unaware quote Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this is Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping.

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it. — Sarra Manning

Every country in the world now needs to have its veterinary services on high alert for H5N1 to be sure they are not caught unawares. — David Nabarro

I was so awash in sensory overload that I was caught completely unaware when he did push me away — Richelle Mead

Blissfully Unaware Quotes

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. — Donald James

Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them. — Bruce Mau

Dumb people are just blissfully unaware of how dumb they are. — Patrick Star

Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. — Seth Klarman

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware. — Doug Larson

Today, the danger of some sort of a nuclear catastrophe is greater than it was during the Cold War, and most people are blissfully unaware of this danger. — Noam Chomsky

I stopped Googling myself a long time ago. I'm sure there's plenty of misinformation out there, but I am blissfully unaware of it. — Zoe Kazan

The thing is, we [celebrities are] all just people living our lives, doing our thing. But, I honestly tend to live in my own little world, and am blissfully unaware of so much. — Chris French

Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let alone with an entire family. I do not want to make movies for the rich. — Lexi Alexander

Your Unaware Quotes

Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault. — Jennifer Worth

O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones. — Stephane Mallarme

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks. — Ethel M. Dell

Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to anyone- it doesn't catch them unawares and start the whisper in their skulls that says- 'One day you are going to die. — Tom Stoppard

In adversity, everything that surrounds you is a kind of medicine that helps you refine your conduct, yet you are unaware of it. In pleasant situations, you are faced with weapons that will tear you apart, yet you do not realize it. — Zicheng Hong

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung. — Vita Sackville-West

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares. — Sophocles

If you want to be of use to God, maintain the proper relationship with Jesus Christ by staying focused on Him & He will make use of you every minute you live- yet you will be unaware, on the conscious level of your life, that you are being used of Him. — Oswald Chambers

I want us to be... what is your word? Friends." "Psychotic rapists don't have friends." "I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered." (Mac & V'lane) — Karen Marie Moning

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More Unaware Quotes

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. — Jean Piaget

The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now. — S. N. Goenka

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I am convinced that human life is filled with many pure, happy, serene examples of insincerity, truly splendid of their kind-of people deceiving one another without (strangely enough) any wounds being inflicted, of people who seem unaware even that they are deceiving one another. — Osamu Dazai

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God. — C. S. Lewis

Some poor, phoneless fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he’s supposed to be. — Duncan Trussell

Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth. — Rupert Spira

There is a design and a purpose for each of our lives. Living unaware of that is sad, but dying unaware of it is a tragedy. — Lou Engle

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of. — Kenneth Lay

Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist. — Eckhart Tolle

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one. — Kent Nerburn

I opened-up a yogurt, underneath the lid it said, "Please try again." because they were having a contest that I was unaware of. I thought maybe I opened the yogurt wrong. ...Or maybe Yoplait was trying to inspire me... "Come on Mitchell, don't give up!" An inspirational message from your friends at Yoplait, fruit on the bottom, hope on top. — Mitch Hedberg

When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We forget all those past lessons of life, forget our potential foolishness, forget ourselves. We immerse ourselves in the act of play. And we become free. — Lenore Terr

Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high. — Gudrun Ensslin

Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because they are aware of it more than others are, and the awareness or unawareness of it is what makes each one of them into masters or holds them down to mediocrity. — Glenn Clark

The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil. — Hans Morgenthau

Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I’m learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude. — Eric Allen

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities. — Thomas Sowell

Ella knows her way around her voice as very few people today. But there are times when she seems to be unaware there are things the human voice just doesn't do. She does them. — Ella Fitzgerald

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware. — Harold Lasswell

Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know! — Manly Hall

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you. — Peter Deunov

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge. — Thomas Sowell

Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance. — Thomas Pynchon

To be honest, I was unaware of the huge frat-rap scene that was taking over the blogosphere until I found myself right in the middle of it. But there are really a ton of talented dudes out there doing this, and I'm just having a great time making music and being a part of it all. — Mike Stud

A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient — Michael Horton

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing. — M. C. Escher

I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect. — J. Lynn

A trajectory of misery – at this point – seems intentional. We have all the information we need to see clearly. We are no longer unaware toddlers on the landscape of consciousness. It is no longer cute to crap ourselves. — Buddy Wakefield

... a speculator is one who runs risks of which he is aware and an investor is one who runs risks of which he is unaware. — John Maynard Keynes

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct. — Mark Twain

All creatures, day and night, make manifestation of Allah. Some of them know what they are doing and are aware of their manifesting, while others are unaware. However it may be, Allah's manifestation is confirmed. — Rumi

It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible - incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares. — Marilynne Robinson

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