Carl Jung Quotes

Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that.

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

Personality traits form at an early age and are fixed by early adulthood. Many important things about you change over the course of your lifetime, but your personality isn't one of them.

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult.

Human nature is what Heaven supplies.

The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality ... is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum.

Children come into the world with a lot of personality already imbedded in them.

No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament".

Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify.

Inherited aptitudes and traits of temperament count for quite as much as length of habituation in deciding what range of habits will come to dominate any individual's scheme of life.

I have a theory that people are either born 'yeses' or 'nos'.

You just are born the way that you're born.

I always compare human beings to animals. It's a nice way to figure out who they are.

Any human being is this wonderful conglomeration of experiences and behaviors, if you like - some of them healthy, some of them not so healthy.

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

Kids are generally rotten until the age of about six, when they become people.

I'm so interested in people's journeys and what makes them tick, the movers and shakers.

I have two kids and they were by no means blank slates. One is exactly like me, one is exactly like my wife.

I'm very interested in how the brain works and the different personality types. I get my friends to do personality tests, and I see what type they resemble.

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.