Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.