
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
– CG Jung
Related Quotes:
- Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense. – Robert Frost
- It’s all nonsense. It’s only nonsense. I’m not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn’t. – Ernest Hemingway
- Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected. – Charles Lamb
- Even if it is nonsense, it is often useful to know what kind of nonsense men believe. – John Christopher
- It seems that nonsense is the only sensible recourse to remedy the nonsense of society’s accepted normalcy – Natasha Tsakos
- You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God. – CS Lewis
- Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. – Clive James
- Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. – Colleen Hoover
- Introspect! Is your life moving forward or just moving like a pendulum? – RVM
- The pendulum wall clock ticked and the ancient refrigerator clicked on. From outside came the low mooing of a cow. Such peace, thought Emily. – Shannon Claire Morelli
- People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly. – George Hammond
- WHITE NATIONALISTS & BLACK LIVES MATTER: The harder you swing the pendulum one way, the more violently it will swing back. – AE Samaan
- Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. – Charles de Lint
- In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense. – Juliet Castle
- We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense. – Norton Juster
- A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard
- A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. – Tom Stoppard
- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
- Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. – Yann Martel
- Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well. – Richard Llewellyn
- The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS. – CG Jung
- The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. – Anthony Jay
- Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. – Idries Shah
- There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question. – Brunonia Barry
- Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. – Mark Twain
- The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong. – Ovadya ben Malka
- I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
- you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
- On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- The web is a dangerous place for a mind begging to slack off and be distracted by nonsense. – Michelle M Pillow
- There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man’s wrong and each man’s right are different. – Peter Matthiessen
- I do know the difference between right and wrong, but I just like the way wrong feels. It’s an impulse, an urge more intense than anything else. – K Webster
- When the line between right and wrong slowly dims, all that’s wrong will be divinely delicious, and ruthlessly fought for! – Menna Anwar
- …the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection. – CG Jung
- The creative mind plays with the object it loves. – CG Jung
