Unconscious Understanding Quotes

I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing . . . the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense.

I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.