Wisdom Quotes

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size."

"There can be no consciousness without discrimination of opposites."

"A healthy mind does not talk much. It acts."

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

"That which you do not bring to consciousness recurs in your life as fate."

"The unconscious is the guide of instinct."

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

"The lack of psychological awareness leaves one subject to possession by the unconscious."

"Synchronicity is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect."

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

"Do not pursue pleasure, as you would chase a butterfly. Let pleasure come to you."

"In everything one must observe the rule of moderation."

"We must make the best use of what is in our power, and take the rest as it happens."

"We should not teach people to like authority, we should teach them how to control authority."

"The consequences of behavior are not always immediately obvious."

"Self knowledge is the beginning of self improvement."

"The greatest mistake we can make is to underestimate the power of the environment."

"I have always been aware of the fact that my individual person is just the individual person of one among millions."

"In the study of disease, we discover the conditions of health."

"I have learned that limitations are often self-imposed."

"The cultivation of empathy is as important as the cultivation of scientific knowledge."

"I am convinced that women bring unique and invaluable perspectives to medicine."

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

"Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world."

"Our passions are the only orators which always persuade."

"The examination of oneself is the beginning of wisdom."

"The power of perception exceeds the power of conception."

"Good sense is of all things we have, the most equally distributed."