Psychology Quotes

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

There is no such thing as a successful defense.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring.

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

There are sufficient resources in the world for the needs of everybody, but not enough for the greed of even a significant minority.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

I like to make them squirm.

Chess is thirty to forty percent psychology. You don't have this when you play a computer. I can't confuse it

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.

It's all in the mind.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

When it's only clothes, that is not satisfying enough for me. I don't think I could do this for 10, 20 years if that was all. It also has to be about a psychology or a mentality or a concept.

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring

Social psychology has found the more you reward people for doing something, the more they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do to get the reward.

My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.

When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.

Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life.

It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.