Psychology Quotes

By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

My psychology belongs to everyone.

Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

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

The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether.

I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but its to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.

What new psychology suggests, it's the factor that is top of consciousness at the moment before you make that economic decision that will win the day.

You are not happy because you're healthy, you are healthy because you're happy

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

The smaller the detail the greater the value.

I learned more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.