Psychology Quotes

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

We invent what we love and what we fear.

The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Whether a belief is considered to be a delusion or not depends partly upon the intensity with which it is defended, and partly upon the numbers of people subscribing to it.

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.

The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

There is no such thing as a normal psychology that holds for all people.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.

I think investment psychology is by far the more important element, followed by risk control, with the least important consideration being the question of where you buy and sell.

Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.

Naturally, the psychological susceptibility of a match participant is significantly higher than a participant in a tournament, since each game substantially changes the over-all position.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Deep connection is the antidote to madness.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

The only way to create change in anyone's psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.

Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.

Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.