Quotes About Psychology

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

Nobody's born evil. I guess that's why we're drawn to violence. We're fascinated by it, but there's a moral in how you examine it.

I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.

Emotions interest me, and I'm fascinated by how a child's mind works.

I've always been fascinated by the body and the mind.

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

I think denial's fascinating. It's a jokey word, but it really happens, and sometimes in enormous ways.

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.

I always think about Faulkner, and I would argue that there can be a difference between the way that characters express themselves internally and externally.

I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.

I don't think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.

I love figuring people out.

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

If people fit together, they fit for a reason. It's usually the sickest part of one person fitting into the attraction of the sickest part of another.

If you read some of the recent literature, there is no such thing as whiteness. But we made it up. Not my original thought, but it's true. Because you were born white, you have advantages systemically, culturally, psychology there. They have been built up for hundreds of years. Many people can't look at it.

We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier.

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.