Wilfred Bion famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Memories #Listening #Desire
It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you are restricted to what is narrowly called a â€˜scientificâ€™ approach. You will have to be able to have a chance of feeling that the interpretation you give is a beautiful one, or that you get a beautiful response from the patient. This aesthetic element of beauty makes a very difficult situation tolerable.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Beautiful #Careers #Giving
Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Benefits #Care #Misers
Wealth is the sinews of affairs.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Business #Wealth #Affair
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Adversity #Bears #Ill
Old age is the harbor of all ills.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Age #Harbors #Old Age
To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Inspirational #Facts #Dare
Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Arrogance #Obstruction
A good leader makes a good follower.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Leadership #Leader #Followers
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Learning #Men #Evil
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Age #Old Age
If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each other, and suddenly introduce order where the appearance of disorder reigned.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Order #Long #Elements
The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.
-- Wilfred Bion

#Life #Desperate #Ends

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