Quotes About Psychology

He sat up. He was naked as a jaybird, but someone had thoughtfully provided a flint-napped dagger hilted in rawhide, as well as a solid, flint-headed spear, so he did not feel weaponless. So someone knew something about human psychology, or at least his psychology. But not enough to have also provided a loincloth.

While Money's theory of human newborns as total psychosexual blank slates may strike a contemporary reader as science fiction, such was not the case in the mid-1950s, when it was met with almost universal acceptance by clinicians and scientists

Grumbach adds, "John Money is a major figure, and what he says gets handed down and accepted as gospel by some

We're the world's leading producer of serial killers. It's a sign of sickness, is what it is. We're sick and weak and these killers are like a cancer inside us: the faster we grow, the quicker they multiply.

It's odd, but people are capable of forgetting quite extraordinary occurrences very quickly if it makes them happier to do so

By the twentieth century, when the individual had replaced the family as the primary economic unit, the tie between sexuality and reproduction weakened further. Influenced by psychology as well as by the growing power of the media, both men and women began to adopt personal happiness as a primary goal of sexual relations. Various

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,

You always complain," Gene said. "Every hand. Which leads me to believe, you clever beast, that it's some kind of psychological stratagem.

Representative Leo J. Ryan understood the manipulation phenomena people were describing to him and he lost his life in a Guyanese jungle investigating how Jim Jones "bent minds.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.

The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

Most people do not benefit from psychoanalysis because the trauma lies not in this life but in a past life.

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

In place of thoughts it has impulses, habits, and emotions.