Psychology Quotes
Psychology Quote of the day
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.
Donald Trump has been called, by psychologists and clinical psychologists, over and over again, a narcissist with multiple sociopathic and psychopathic tendencies.
People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.
It is only when you meet someoneof a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your ownbeliefs really are.
The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.
It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.
Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.
Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist.
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Man's search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a "secondary rationalization" of instinctual drives.
A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.
Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.
He who knows how to wait need make no concessions.
She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour".
Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative".
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.
Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.
Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.
My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.
There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking.
An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
It is that we are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.
A man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house.
A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
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.
They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me.
...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.
The degradation of most civilizations, contain a common thread. The 'synagogue of Satan' is behind all weaponized ignorance and hate.
Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
