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Unconscious Quotes

Quotes on what runs beneath conscious thought.

These quotes treat the unconscious as smarter, stranger territory than the conscious mind: camera optics compared to unconscious impulses, a center that can't be found yet is somehow known internally, and a lasting interest in where rational and unconscious life meet. See our Mind quotes.

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

Quotes by Warren Beatty

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

Quotes by Walter Benjamin

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

Quotes by W. H. Auden

Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

Depth Quotes

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

Quotes by Pierre Bourdieu

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

Quotes by Nancy Friday

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

Quotes by Mary Oliver

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Quotes by Kathryn Harrison

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

Quotes by John Fahey

Emotion Quotes

Being unconscious is the ultimate disability.

Quotes by Jessa Gamble

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Quotes by Jean Cocteau

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

Quotes by Henri Bergson

The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.

Quotes by Hannah Gadsby

My specialties are corpses, unconscious people and people snoring in spectacular epics.

Quotes by Gig Young

Identity Quotes

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

Quotes by Emmeline Pankhurst

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

Quotes by Edward Sapir

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Quotes by Charles Spurgeon

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Quotes by Anthony Burgess

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does this Unconscious quotes page cover?
It treats the unconscious as smarter and stranger than conscious thought, from camera optics compared to unconscious impulses to a lasting interest in where the two meet.
Why do people search for quotes about the unconscious?
The unconscious mind fascinates people because it shapes behavior in ways that are hard to explain, so readers look for language that captures that hidden influence.
Is there a quote here comparing photography to the unconscious?
Yes, one quote says the camera introduces us to unconscious optics much the way psychoanalysis introduces us to unconscious impulses.
Does any quote claim the unconscious is smarter than conscious thought?
One states directly that the unconscious is much smarter than the conscious, treating intuition as a kind of intelligence that reasoning alone can't match.
Where can I read more mind-related quotes?
For more on the mind, browse our Mind and Depth quotes.

It's a small set that treats intuition as its own kind of intelligence. Continue with our Depth and Identity quotes.