Quotes About Psychology

Sometimes people behave in certain ways to provoke us to react in certain ways. If we stop reacting in these certain ways, we take all the fun out of it for them.

When I repress my emotions, my stomach keeps score … 1 —JOHN POWELL

How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.

The fact that men use emotional withholding as a weapon of psychological terrorism is never discussed.

From the moment little boys are taught they should not cry or express hurt, feelings of loneliness, or pain, that they must be tough, they are learning how to mask true feelings. In worst-case scenarios they are learning how to not feel anything ever.

With therapeutic help, I was able to see the term dysfunctional as useful description and not as an absolute negative judgment.

This faulty thinking often shapes our adult perceptions of love. So that just as we would cling to the notion that those who hurt us as children loved us, we try to rationalize being hurt by other adults by insisting that they love us.

La paura della morte è la favela dell'animo umano, esserne liberi è l'equivalente psicologico dell'ereditare cento milioni di dollari. Ecco cosa invidia davvero a questa gente, il lusso di considerare il terrorismo un argomento di conversazione, e in questo preciso momento si sente così sfigato che potrebbe scoppiare a piangere.

How did one even fraternize with people who could not entertain vivid scenarios of self-mutilation? How was the sexual act even possible if one's partner could not entertain being crushed under a truck, just as a cathartic exercise? What important piece of her brain was missing that deprived her of such, well, deeply necessary acts of physical editing ?

A therapist once said to me that I was a good storyteller, but he didn't mean it as a compliment.

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

You should always remember, in the words of psychologist Paul Slovic, that risk is brewed from an equal dose of two ingredients - probabilities and consequences. Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.

The concept of safety can be really useful only if it is based on something more tangible than the psychology of the purchaser.

the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.

simplicity of choice, and promise of satisfactory results, in terms of psychology as well as arithmetic.

the investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself. ("The fault, dear investor, is not in our stars—and not in our stocks—but in ourselves….")

People talking on handless devices always remind me of mental patients talking to themselves.

People with daddy issues can always spot a fellow traveler.

Me? I'm too boring to have nightmares." He laughed. "Hell, I don't think I even dream.

L'humanité a connu trois vexations. La première c'est Nicolas Copernic qui a déduit de ses observations du ciel que la Terre n'était pas au centre de l'univers. La deuxième c'est Charles Darwin qui a conclu que l'homme descendait d'un primate et était donc un animal comme les autres. La troisième c'est Sigmund Freud qui a signalé que la motivation réelle de la plupart de nos actes politiques ou artistiques était la sexualité.

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. to this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.