Quotes About Psychology

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear.

He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.

The term fed up actually comes from falconry. When you train a falcon, you train it by hunger, using it as a tool to manipulate the bird's psychology. So when the bird has had too much to eat, it won't cooperate and gets annoyed by any attempts to tell it what to do. It simply sits in the top of a tree and sulks. It is fed up.

I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it will help.

It seems to me that the whole field of humour could benefit from close and immediate scrutiny. Clearly we need to sort out the jokes which have any kind of genuine psychological value from those which merely encourage drug abuse and should be stopped.

Parts of the inside of her head screamed at other parts of the inside of her head.

In fact, vertigo is explained by some not as the fear of falling, but as the temptation to jump!

One psycho for every nine stable people in the company is a good ratio.

Chronotropic Drugs: Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one the impression that time feels longer. Chronoaccelocotropic drugs have the opposite effect.

But if you accept dreams, you also have to accept nightmares, and I know nightmares are bad things. And if dreams are so special, why is it that no person or company has ever tried to make a drug that leads to better dreaming? Sleeping pills, yes, but dreaming pills? Have scientists even asked that question?

man and ape are separated more by ego than anatomy

Human beings," he said, "have a bottomless capacity for rationalization and self-deception.

Are you familiar with Project MK-Ultra?

My 'temper' was a dark, wicked blotch in me, not a response to events in the outer world.

The very root of sin, to use Jesus' language, is something that can be forgiven. It's forgivable because it's an unconscious act, a result of being spiritually asleep. We can't be blamed for being unconscious, for acting out our unconsciousness, even for feeling the effects of our unconsciousness within our psychology.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

One cannot be interested in crime without being interested in psychology. It is not the mere act of killing, it is what lies behind it that appeals to the expert.

E un fenomen foarte des întâlnit. Dac? v?d vreodat? pe cineva care pare s? aib? o p?rere foarte bun? despre sine ?i se laud? f?r? încetare, ?tiu de fiecare dat? c? undeva exist? un tainic sentiment de inferioritate.

Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way." - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167

Human nature is full of inconsistencies

There is, as Miss Marple would say, a lot of human nature in all of us.

It's so dreadfully easy...killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn't matter…That it's only you that matters! It's dangerous...that.