Psychology Quotes

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

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.

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.

Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.

It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

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.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions!

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.

Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.

Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

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