Psychology Quotes

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

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.

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

Anger is the immune system of the soul.

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the thoughts and will of the opponent.

We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.

You must not let your opponent know how you feel.

Much of what is called Christianity has more to do with disguising the ego behind the screen of religion and culture than any real movement toward a God beyond the small self, and a new self in God.

Most of our failures in understanding one another have less to do with what is heard than with what is intended and what is inferred.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression.

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

As a chess player one has to be able to control one's feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine.

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.

Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.