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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

tags: idiotic-book, love, romance, romantic
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: ignorance
353 people liked it

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: malice, stupidity
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"He who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
— Alexander Hamilton

tags: bravery, conviction, ignorance, intelligence, stand, strength, stupidity, wisdom
190 people liked it

"You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: humor
227 people liked it

"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."
— George Carlin (When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?)

150 people liked it

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
136 people liked it

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid"
— Benjamin Franklin

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"If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is...and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them."
— Jack Handey

tags: absurd
117 people liked it

"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public."
— Douglas Coupland (JPod)

tags: humor
110 people liked it

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: chemistry, relationships
104 people liked it

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: psychotherapist, secrets, visions
104 people liked it

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: knowing-others, perception, self-awareness, understanding
66 people liked it

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: psychiatry, sanity
61 people liked it

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: action, service
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"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: darkness, self-knowledge, social
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"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: addiction, psyche, psychology
25 people liked it

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know."
— Carl Gustav Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections)

tags: childhood, psychology
15 people liked it

"There's no coming to consciousness without pain."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted..."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: authenticity
7 people liked it

"Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: wisdom
5 people liked it

"The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"Explore daily the will of God."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: fate
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"The true leader is always led."
— Carl Gustav Jung

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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: life
23 people liked it

"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
— Carl Gustav Jung

tags: intelligence, morality, psychology, reason
21 people liked it

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