Quotes About Psychology

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

It is sometimes possible to change the attitudes of millions but impossible to change the attitude of one man.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons [...] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.

men are very largely actuated by motives which they conceal from themselves…It is evident that the successful propagandist must understand the true motives and not be content to accept the reasons which men give for what they do.

Does not mean merely a physical aggregation of a number of persons…the crowd is rather a state of mind.

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

the experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

He must give up his identification with original unconscious wholeness and voluntarily accept being a real fragment instead of an unreal whole.

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produced some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are.

I now know the color of fear — it's brown.

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

Telling your kids to define their identities and behaviour by their feelings is just setting them up to have confusing and difficult lives.

stress, which impairs memory, reduces neurogenesis.

And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.

In feeling pudor, a Roman meditating self-destruction did not so much suffer from guilt at some bad thing he had done

It's easy enough to change your personality, to become evil. The trouble is, it stays with you. And it damages you.

think there was a part of her that was attracted to people who kill.' 'She admired them?

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior.

The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind.

I've always used poetry to explain myself to myself. These things just sat in my psyche and then came out.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.