Unawareness Quotes

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions.

When ignorance is bliss, / Tis folly to be wise.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

You've got to try and do your best, and the failure is what's funny. But you can't be aware of the failure, you've just got to keep trying to do your best.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can happen only when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate, transformation starts in your being, because when you are present, aware, many things are simply not possible. All that is called sin is not possible if you are aware. So, in fact, there is only one sin and that is unawareness.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

We thought we would get around to it sometime down the line. Theoretically we could have regulated it, but it wasn't on our radar screen.

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!

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

No one who lives in error is free.

In order to understand why George W. Bush doesn't get it, you have to take several strands of common Texas attitude, then add an impressive degree of class-based obliviousness. What you end up with is a guy who sees himself as a perfectly nice fellow - and who is genuinely disconnected from the impact of his decisions on people.

They are as blind to some of the tendencies of the time as the French Noblese was before the French Revolution.

The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

I never knew anything about rapping.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.