Psychology Quotes

Ah, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We a...

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which ...

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatan...

Yakov spent the whole day playing his fiddle; when it got completely dark, he took the notebook in w...

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of...

We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere ho...

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

The twins were too young to know that these were only history’s henchmen. Sent to square the books a...

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trendis statism. Philosophically, the goal is theobliterat...

I would have been glad to agree to let them all proceed henceforth in complete ignorance of psycholo...

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best...

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a co...

man equate their self-esteem with accomplishment

Happiness, after all, is generally measured as reported satisfaction with one's life - a state of mi...

As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is th...

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is inf...

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

If a woman had a problem in the 1950's and 1960's, she knew that something must be wrong with her ma...

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, ove...

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engag...

The world is your perception of it. Inside and outside always match - they're reflections of each ot...

I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with ...

He said sometimes when you're young you have to think about things, because you're forming your valu...

It is as well to put this the other way round. Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, h...

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

Whatever piece of unconscious we take and work through brings light to humanity.

Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can...

Real communication occurs...when we listen with understanding. What does this mean? It means to see ...

Hearing has consequences. When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at t...

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological c...

Might it be possible at some future time, when neurophysiology has advanced substantially, to recons...

Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is s...

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you'r...

...they would say 'he said this, he did that', but they would never say 'she said this, she did that...

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence w...

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based ...

In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on ...

They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secre...

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losin...

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than peop...

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had...

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to...

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

Obviously, there must be some connection between the subordination of actual individuals and the gro...

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to...

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...

You think with your body, not with your brain.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is...

The law (of least effort) asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people ...

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an ...

The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has change...

If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler ...

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind wo...

Characteristics of System 1: • generates impressions, feelings, and inclinations; when endorsed by S...

...the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is unde...

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is n...

Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.A child may not know how to feed itself, or what...

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wa...

It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement abo...

If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents do...

What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those S...

Kraus asks the question of Freudian analysis: What would be enough? At what point would talking abou...

When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.

The word phobic has its place when properly used, but lately it's been declawed by the pompous insis...

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a...

The abnegation of empathy in the case of something as complex and variable as sexual taste is a dang...

Have you ever felt love?Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and s...

...a woman smart and persistent enough that even a PhD in psychology hasn't clouded her insight into...

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

Love is the great intangible. In our nightmares, we can create beasts out of pure emotion. Hate stal...

It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.

But, if I dare say it, it wasn't until I had helped kill a man that I realized how elusive and compl...

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arri...

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fulln...

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-gu...

It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never ...

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...

You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identifie...

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the ...

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build o...

People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people...

Wow," the empty air finally said. "Wow. That puts a pretty different perspective on things, I have t...

Because the way people are built, Hermione, the way people are built to feel inside -" Harry put a h...

It's a most peculiar psychology—this business of 'Science is based on faith too, so there!' Typicall...

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living v...

But wether I am faking on a player piano, or striking the chords with the power of my own mind and h...

All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. ...