Carl Jung Quotes

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

The thing that I was brought up to prize above everything else is the intellect. There is no problem that the intellect cannot solve, but it never had an original thought. Originality is the realm of the unconscious.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Intelligence is capital.

Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.

I'm quite sharp but not particularly academic.

For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem to answer.

You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then you walk away from it and let it ferment. You ignore it and pretend you don't care. Next thing you know, the answer comes.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.