Psychologist Quotes: Insights and Wisdom from the Minds of Mental Health...

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people"

"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not"

Carl Jung, Psychologist