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Quotes About Psychology

And what kind of a liar is he who can fool only others? To lie to oneself and believe it—that is an art!
~ Leonid Andreyev
Factorul cel mai frecvent care determin? dezvoltarea dependen?ei de a-i mul?umi pe al?ii este trauma din prima copil?rie asociat? cu sentimentul de a fi ignorat, respins sau abandonat de c?tre prima persoan? care s-a ocupat de copil.
~ Les Barbanell
Are people innately altruistic? is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.
~ Levitt & Dubner
Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.
~ Lewis Carroll
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~ Lewis Wolpert
I want to ask him if it's possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?
~ Libba Bray
Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead." "He's not dead; just very tired.
~ Libba Bray
Maybe he would kill one of them for fun. Maybe not. Mood was everything.
~ Libba Bray
You know what works? Denial. As a coping tool, denial is severely underrated.
~ Libba Bray
I can sometimes influence a person inside a dream, Henry added. For instance, if someone were having a nightmare, I might say, 'Why don't you dream about clowns instead?' Clowns are your cure for a nightmare? Evie said from the couch, where she lay half-sprawled again, legs crossed, one leg kicking out and back. Never, ever say that to me inside one of my dreams, Henry. Promise me, She shivered. Clowns.
~ Libba Bray
the psychopath will speak of himself in grandiose terms while blaming others and taking absolutely no responsibility for his actions.
~ Lillian Glass
this single memory, coupled with the others of Mother masturbating on me early in the mornings, or in front of me when I was small, was ample.
~ Linda Gray Sexton
Maybe why I want Kayo to beat me up is to prove he's a man and I'm a woman," she mused to Dr. Orne. "I want him to be aggressive.
~ Linda Gray Sexton
Quincy, boyfriends apologize, shrinks analyze. Which are you?
~ Lisa Gardner
People with a history of depression often appear happiest right before they commit suicide. Not because their depression has passed, but because they've finally chosen a course of action.
~ Lisa Gardner
You look down and to the left. When people are trying to remember something, they look up and to the left. When they're avoiding the truth, however, they look down and to the left. Interesting bit of trivia they teach us in detective school.
~ Lisa Gardner
according to Freud, the tie you pick, the ring you wear, the shirt you buy, all say something about you. Nothing is random, everything you do has intent.
~ Lisa Gardner
So you've studied psychobabble and you've attended half of the FBI Academy. What does that make you? Someone who also lost her sister. And her mother, too, for that matter. Trump. In the contest of who has gotten dumped on more by life, I believe I just won.
~ Lisa Gardner
That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
~ Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
~ Bill Vaughan
Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.
~ Jackson Katz
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.
~ Richard Wall
The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.
~ Eric Hoffer
Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity
~ Aldous Huxley