Quotes with awakening

  • No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
  • We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

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  • Sir Walter Scott Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • I Ching Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Bryan Adams I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • H.G. Wells It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Adrienne Rich It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Carol Loomis The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Anatole France The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Alan Cohen True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi Upon awakening he discovered that he was no longer a wooden puppet, but that he had become instead a boy, like all other boys.
    Pinocchio (1892)
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Birch Bayh You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Simone Weil We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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