Psychology Quotes

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

PR is a mix of journalism, psychology, and lawyering - it's an ever-changing and always interesting landscape.

Blame is the cowards way out.

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.

My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

If your opponent cannot do anything active, then don't rush the position; instead you should let him sit there, suffer, and beg you for a draw

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.