That statement is false
Our subconscious tend to give a strong influence to our behaviours even if we are not feeling it directly.
For example, let's say that there is a boy that hurt by cats and it's ingrained in his head that cats possess high level of danger to him. Even after that boy grow up, his subsconcious would most likely cause a certain level of paranoia that make him either scared of cats or simply annoyed by seeing them.