Quotes About Psychology

your own now.

Such behaviours weren't the reasons parents abused children but the results of abuse.

Fear worked both ways - if you suppressed the physical symptoms, it calmed your mind.

His grandmother had said to him once, smiling slightly, that if you compelled people to behave as if they believed something eventually all but the strongest-willed really did start to believe it, because it was easier on their pride than admitting every moment in the privacy of their soul that they were pretending.

There's always another way. But we can only see as we are. And no power on earth, nor above or below it, not even yours, Dr Freud, can deflect the human will when it has its sights set on one direction.

I need to tease out how far I was to blame. You'll understand that, Dr Freud. Guilt. Does anyone escape it? Is guilt the reason we make up stories?

Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best

The problem is not technological," he said. "And there is no technological solution to it. The problem is human, human nature in general, male human nature in particular

The native is an oppressed person whose permanent dream is to become the persecutor. — Fanon

Was it possible that his fear of flying had been cured at exactly the moment at which it was perfectly rational to feel afraid?

I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making.

I still considered the world's religions to be mere intellectual ruins, maintained at enormous economic and social cost, but I now understood that important psychological truths could be found in the rubble.

Given the right experimental manipulations, people can be led to believe that they consciously intended an action when they neither chose it nor had control over their movements.

You are not in control of your mind—because you, as a conscious agent, are only part of your mind, living at the mercy of other parts.

most of the research done on happiness suggests that people actually become less happy when they have children and do not begin to approach their prior level of happiness until their children leave home.

Robert Trivers argues, for instance, that people who can believe their own lies turn out to be the best liars of all—and an ability to deceive rivals has obvious advantages in the state of nature.

Despite our attachment to notions of free will, most us know that disorders of the brain can trump the best intentions of the mind.

We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy.

Free will is an illusion.

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.