60 Psychology quotes and sayings from famous people. Here are the best psychology quotes to read that will inspire you positively. Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, a study that includes personality, emotion, and self-development. May these famous psychology quotes help you acquire the knowledge that you seek in which you'll be able to use in any life situation. Share these quotes about psychology with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
1. An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try. - Jen Knox
2. Thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else. - J.K. Rowling
3. The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. - Carl Gustav Jung
4. Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. - James Baldwin
5. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare
6. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. - Douglas Adams
7. 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. - Ken Kesey
8. The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place. - Jim Butcher
9. If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. - Nicholas Sparks
10. Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first. - Megan Whalen Turner
11. A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. - Charles Dickens
12. I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. - Martha Gellhorn
13. 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. - Erich Fromm
14. There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick. - Douglas Adams
15. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. - Carl Gustav Jung
16. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. - Carl G. Jung
17. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. - Daniel Kahneman
18. Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular. - Lisa Lutz
19. When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. - William Gibson
20. Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event. - Carl Gustav Jung
21. To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. - Sun Tzu
22. Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. - Richard Adams
23. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. - Margaret Atwood
24. Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. - Carl Gustav Jung
25. Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. - Charles Dickens
26. One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. - Saul Bellow
27. One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. - Alan Wilson Watts
28. Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way. - H.P. Lovecraft
29. We forget very easily what gives us pain. - Graham Greene
30. Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. - Viktor E. Frankl
31. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - Carl G. Jung
32. Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. - Wilhelm Reich
33. Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. - Marshall Rosenberg
34. If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride. - Karen Horney
35. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. - John Ruskin
36. The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. - Freidrich Neitzsche
37. I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. - Byron Katie
38. She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted. - Jeffery Deaver
39. People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around. - Douglas Adams
40. Reality denied comes back to haunt. - Philip K. Dick
41. It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous. - Brené Brown
42. To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. - James P. Carse
43. People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. - Thomas Szasz
44. He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running. - Richard Adams
45. 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. - Douglas Adams
46. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. - Eckhart Tolle
47. Curiosity is the engine of achievement. - Ken Robinson
48. We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. - Erich Fromm
49. The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. - Carl Rogers
50. A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. - Douglas Adams
51. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King Jr.
52. We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and only very little from a state of things. - Sigmund Freud
53. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. - Thomas Stephen Szasz
54. When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. - Carl Rogers
55. There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding. - Erik Erikson
56. The brain is wider than the sky. - Emily Dickinson
57. Great spirits have often overcome violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
58. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. - Ivan Pavlov
59. The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. - Stanley Milgram
60. Education survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. - B.F. Skinner
1. An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try. - Jen Knox
2. Thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else. - J.K. Rowling
3. The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. - Carl Gustav Jung
4. Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. - James Baldwin
5. We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. - William Shakespeare
6. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win. - Douglas Adams
7. 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. - Ken Kesey
8. The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place. - Jim Butcher
9. If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. - Nicholas Sparks
10. Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first. - Megan Whalen Turner
11. A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. - Charles Dickens
12. I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother. - Martha Gellhorn
13. 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. - Erich Fromm
14. There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick. - Douglas Adams
15. Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. - Carl Gustav Jung
16. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. - Carl G. Jung
17. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. - Daniel Kahneman
18. Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular. - Lisa Lutz
19. When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart. - William Gibson
20. Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event. - Carl Gustav Jung
21. To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. - Sun Tzu
22. Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. - Richard Adams
23. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations. - Margaret Atwood
24. Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. - Carl Gustav Jung
25. Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. - Charles Dickens
26. One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. - Saul Bellow
27. One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. - Alan Wilson Watts
28. Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way. - H.P. Lovecraft
29. We forget very easily what gives us pain. - Graham Greene
30. Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. - Viktor E. Frankl
31. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - Carl G. Jung
32. Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. - Wilhelm Reich
33. Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. - Marshall Rosenberg
34. If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride. - Karen Horney
35. A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. - John Ruskin
36. The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. - Freidrich Neitzsche
37. I am a lover of what is, not because I'm a spiritual person, but because it hurts when I argue with reality. - Byron Katie
38. She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted. - Jeffery Deaver
39. People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around. - Douglas Adams
40. Reality denied comes back to haunt. - Philip K. Dick
41. It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous. - Brené Brown
42. To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated. - James P. Carse
43. People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. - Thomas Szasz
44. He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running. - Richard Adams
45. 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. - Douglas Adams
46. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but you thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. - Eckhart Tolle
47. Curiosity is the engine of achievement. - Ken Robinson
48. We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. - Erich Fromm
49. The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination. - Carl Rogers
50. A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. - Douglas Adams
51. We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King Jr.
52. We are so made, that we can only derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and only very little from a state of things. - Sigmund Freud
53. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. - Thomas Stephen Szasz
54. When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. - Carl Rogers
55. There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding. - Erik Erikson
56. The brain is wider than the sky. - Emily Dickinson
57. Great spirits have often overcome violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
58. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. - Ivan Pavlov
59. The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. - Stanley Milgram
60. Education survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. - B.F. Skinner
60 Psychology quotes and sayings from famous people
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