Carl Jung Quotes

Suppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Use your brain, not your endurance.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on minor points.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid?

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

Evil isn’t the real threat to the world. Stupid is just as destructive as Evil, maybe more so, and it’s a hell of a lot more common. What we really need is a crusade against Stupid. That might actually make a difference.

Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

Doubting everything and believing everything are two equally convenient solutions that guard us from having to think

The best test of whether someone is extremely stupid (or extremely wise) is whether financial and political news makes sense to him.

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.