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Wisdom Quotes by Carl Jung
- It is a bewildering thing in human life that the things that cause the greatest fear is the source of the greatest wisdom.
- Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the…
- Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated,…
- People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It…
- Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions.…
- Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times,…
- Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.
- We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the…
- There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One…
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold