Quotes about Psychology

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

Is giving yourself a pep talk every day silly, superficial, childish? No, on the contrary, it is the very essence of sound psychology. "Our life is what our thoughts make it." These words are just as true today as they were eighteen centuries ago when Marcus Aurelius first wrote them in his book on Meditations: "Our life is what our thoughts make it.

If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn't date.

Acting like a crowd of kids/ the mask was a thin thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness/ He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint and could look at each of them in return/ They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought"?Lord of the Flies?

The enemy is always in the mind.

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

Psychology is the science of mental life

He believes in No-God, and he worships him," said a colleague of mine of a student who was manifesting a fine atheistic ardor; and the more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough shown a temper which, psychologically considered, is indistinguishable from religious zeal.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries