Carl Jung Quotes

When people don't get enough information, they make it up.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

It's not the things you don't know that trip you up. It's the things you think you know, but you don't. You fail to ask a certain question because you believe you know the answer. Separating your information from your assumptions can be very tricky business.

People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment.

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what HE is doing. They all assume we know what WE are doing. We don't...Nothing is going on and nobody knows what it is. Nobody is concealing anything except the fact that he does not understand anything anymore and wishes he could go home.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

When you don't understand something, you often laugh.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

I'm not sure exactly what Victor told Dr. Goldman, but I don't think he fully knew what was going on... I think he was really oblivious. I don't think he knew.

Ignorance breeds fear.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

People have opinions but no knowledge.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused.

I'm always distressed by the supposedly bright people who don't know what they are.

People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.