Psychology Quotes
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one
If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.
No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.
It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.
A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.
It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.
If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.
Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage
A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need.
When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.
More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
