The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
Edward Thorndike

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.
Jean de la Bruyere

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Mencius

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
David Chalmers

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.
Tori Amos

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.
Michael N. Castle

This... there's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem. We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.
Mark Lloyd

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
James A. Baldwin

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
William James

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
Maxwell Maltz

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.
Bo Bennett

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
Ken Burns

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers

Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.
William Irwin Thompson

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
Wole Soyinka

Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.
Brian Sibley

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.
Ray Kurzweil

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
Hans Kung

We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.
Lionel K. Murphy