Sigmund Freud Quotes

Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

When you show people good information, they make good decisions.

Ignorance never settles a question.

In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.

When you can answer questions about what you think and when you can explain why you think what you think, that's power, it's comforting power.

When you have answers, when everything has a reason, when it makes sense to an analytical person, you're going to be more successful. You're going to be more comfortable.

Hindsight does always serve the purpose of putting you in the right, and if you don't have it, you find yourself very often in the wrong.

Understanding is the solution to every problem.

The search for information gives me more confidence, because confidence arises from understanding.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

When you have that last piece of the jigsaw, everything will, I hope, be clear..." -Albus Dumbledore

The more I see, the less I know.

The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

Truth and clarity are complementary.

I get the picture better than anybody.