“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 · Wisdom quote

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 quote card
Psychiatrist & Psychoanalyst · 1875 – 1961

Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. His concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes and introversion and extraversion remain influential in psychology and culture.

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