Carl Jung Quotes

A lot of people are lazy when it comes to making up their own mind about something, you know? If you're labelled one way then they think thats how you are. It takes too much time to really look into things.

Too many people are too lazy to think. Instead of learning something new, they think the same thought day in day out.

How prone we are to come to the consideration of every question with heads and hearts pre-occupied! How prone to shrink from any opinion, however reasonable, if it be opposed to any, however unreasonable, of our own! How disposed are we to judge, in anger, those who call upon us to think, and encourage us to enquire! To question our prejudices seems nothing less than sacrilege; to break the chains of our ignorance, nothing short of impiety!

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity.

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.

I wish people would quit telling me to think. I think. Thinking's easy. It's not thinking that's hard.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show the darkness but to put out our own eyes.

One of the big differences between liberals and conservatives is that liberals really, really want to believe that people want to listen to facts.

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.

Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping the energy active, we're thinking, we're really using the power of our intelligence in a thinking way. But when we've been programmed to believe, we're no longer thinking, because energy flows.

I've met people who've dismissed me, and then they find out that they like my work, and suddenly their attitude changes toward me. And I think that's very funny and very human. But it's also very unattractive.

If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question, it is a good bet that there would be no suicide bombers.

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.

I'm asking people to think critically and not to be lazy in their thinking.