Alfred Adler Quotes

from one thing, know ten thousand things

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

I'm not very wise to many things.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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

You know so much about me and yet you don't understand me. To know is not to understand. We could know everything and still not understand anything.

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

I like to say understanding is the power.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

You should know better.ʺ ʺIʹve never known better,ʺ he countered. ʺYou should know that.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Of the Logos which is as I describe it men always prove to be uncomprehending, both before they have heard it and when once they have heard it. For although all things happen according to this Logos, they [men] are like people of no experience, even when they experience such words and deeds as I explain, when I distinguish each thing according to its constitution and declare how it is; but the rest of men fail to notice what they do after they wake up just as they forget what they do when asleep.