This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution. Daniel Kahneman
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them. Gunnar Myrdal
How could I have died and gone to hell without noticing the transition? Lois McMaster Bujold
We Canadians think that Canada is a modern, well informed democracy. We look down our noses at the dumbed down content on Fox News and CNN, without noticing that we are rapidly heading in the same direction. Elizabeth May
Perhaps I've been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes. Cecelia Ahern
People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind. Giambattista Vico