Carl Jung Quotes

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Why are a 'wise man' and a 'wiseguy' opposites?

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.

The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Ain't it funny what people say? Ain't it funny what people write?

Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.

I truly believe that if you think something's stupid, that might mean it's actually good.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

The only difference between a wise man and a fool is that the wise man knows he's playing.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

Every day I hear stupid people say things that are not stupid.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men