15 Quotes by Wilfred Bion

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

A good leader makes a good follower.

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

The boys throw rocks at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

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.

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.