Psychology Quotes

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...

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibil...

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, "Listen, kid, here is the news: life is ...

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others...

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a ...

Then might I exemplify how an influence beyond our control lays its strong hand on every deed which ...

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as...

Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a...

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their ow...

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting ques...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is ...

Literature keeps presenting the most vicious things to us an entertainment, but what it appeals to i...

So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and...

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to gene...

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, ou...

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing...

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no...

I maintain, then, that scientific psychology (and, it may be added, the psychology of the same kind ...

Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting ...

The criminal (as slave) often seeks a person of great perfection (and here, as a judge of people's i...

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldes...

Everything 'happens'. People can 'do' nothing. From the time we are born to the time we die things h...

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about oneself?A. No, it is more diffi...

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feeling...

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking te...

Moral deliberation has to be somewhere in the brain, after all. It’s not going to be in the foot or ...

It is fascinating to discover that individuals who are asked to assign a punishment to a criminal ar...

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in foreign country, able to ...

But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of princ...

There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful ps...

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Psychological man may be going nowhere, but he aims to achieve a certain speed and certainty in goin...

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and phys...

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of ...