Quotes about Psychology
Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.
— Paul Graham
No psychology of religion can teach us what conversion is and ought to be; the Scriptures alone can tell us that.
— Herman Bavinck
A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.
— Hillary Clinton
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
— Albert Ellis
Psychology can make us feel good, but religion can make us be good.
— Peter Kreeft
Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally.
— Philip K. Dick
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.
— DH Lawrence
Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
— Mortimer Adler
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
— Bill Wilson
I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.
— Barry Zito
deconstructing a person is easier than constructing one.
— Philip Yancey
The happiness that the psychologically impaired achieve through religion alone is often the shallow happiness of the unexamined life.
— Dennis Prager