Psychology Quotes

The fully human person is in deep and meaningful contact with the world outside of him. He not only ...

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.

Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically ...

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know...

How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The pref...

A few years ago, Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, wanted to figure out why placeb...

Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like...

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religio...

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut...

Moral matrices bind people together and blind them to the coherence, or even existence, of other mat...

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is ...

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.

Maslow's five values are the values for which people live when they have nothing to live for. Nothin...

Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, in...

The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vital...

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot ...

Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, be...

The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patie...

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness...

Her parents, she said, has put a pinball machine inside her head when she was five years old. The re...

But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense...

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current s...

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

I discovered at an early age that I was - shall we be kind and say different? It's a better, more ge...

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends t...

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started ac...

Curiosity is the engine of achievement.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion ...

An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, ...

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyp...

Clinical psychology tells us arguably that trauma is the ultimate killer.Memories r not recycled lik...

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered go...

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one ...

It was as if the main screw in his head, which held his whole life together, had become stripped. Th...

Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes;...

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Mater...

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our ow...

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this,...

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat con...

. . . I'm not sure we always respect the mysteries of the locked door and the dangers of the storyte...

We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can b...

The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very simil...

What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, ...

It may well have been, too, that the smiling moderation with which she faced and answered these blas...

… it would even be inexact to say that I thought of those who read it as readers of my book. Because...

striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to a...

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a...

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams...

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to...

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get a...

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individua...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...

Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to...

Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dyn...

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archet...

In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the...

‎"...θα πρέπει να αντιληφθείς, αγαπητή Τερέζα, ότι τα αντικείμενα δεν έχουν, κατά την άποψη μας, άλλ...

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it see...

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psycholog...

Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hung...

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being wit...

All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can...

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary m...

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimis...

This scene expresses the basic situation of immaturity; lyricism is an attempt to face that situatio...

He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescr...

But it was not only a feeling of guilt which drove him into danger. He detested the pettiness that m...

Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temp...

Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betra...

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live ...

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I wi...

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationshi...

The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no altern...

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by t...

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abju...

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards e...

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, of...

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender them...

Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative...

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. ...

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good s...

The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation--abandoning or submerging your personal values...

It is not only negative feelings that become blocked. The repression extends to more and more of his...

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is...