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Knowledge Quotes by Sigmund Freud
- Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease…
- We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold…
- Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
- The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
- What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
- The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
- When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such…
- Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to…
- Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable…
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