Quotes About Psychology

Your mind is not only a result of nature, it is also a result of nurturing.

It was the face of a human being who'd been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.

T]he primary motive for the illness is the pleasure itself of remaining in the secure retreat of the childish situation once so unwillingly left behind.

If you tell yourself you don't want to think a certain thought, that is precisely the first thing your mind will produce! That is the nature of the human mind.

When you pursue your own likes and dislikes, you feel alone in this vast existence, constantly insecure, unstable, psychologically challenged. But once existence yields to you, it delivers you to a different place of grace—where every pebble, every rock, every tree, every atom, speaks to you in a language you understand.

Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you. Principles and philosophies are only of social consequence. It is time to wake up to yourself as an existential being, a living being, rather than a psychological case. Then your destiny will be your own. One hundred percent your own. This is not an idle promise. It is a guarantee.

Every kind of misery that human beings are going through is manufactured in their minds.

Emotion is just the juicier part of the thought.

Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind.

American society makes it next to impossible for humans to meet in America and not be conscious of their color differences. And we both agreed that if racism could be removed, America could offer a society where rich and poor could truly live like human beings....The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

S]ociety has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.

We were in that world of Negroes who are both servants and psychologists, aware that white people are so obsessed with their own importance that they will pay liberally, even dearly, for the impression of being catered to and entertained.

Mine was the same psychology that makes Negroes even today, though it bothers them down inside, keep letting the white man tell them how much "progress" they are making. They've heard it so much they've almost gotten brainwashed into believing it—or at least accepting it.

Fat people often think of themselves solely in terms of the 'neck up.' Their bodies are disowned, alienated, foreign, perhaps stubbornly present but not truly a part of the real self.

Afraid she would laugh, she focused elsewhere, landing in Tuvok's familiar, structured psyche, which she always pictured as a spice rack, neatly organized alphabetically

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.

When push comes to shove, only one's own nightmares are of any interest or significance.

There are other colors, pink for instance: pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got onto this. Pale-pink helmets, with rosettes, a whole battalion, onto the beachhead, over the top in pink. Now is the time for me to make the switch, I could use a little pink right now.

Everything that went on in your life was thought to be due to some positive or negative power emanating from inside your head.

He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.

When push comes to shove, only one's own nightmares are of any interest or significance

Girls of that age can be quite sadistic.

according to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.