Quotes About Psychology

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

Psychology is the only necessary skill for running for president. Trump knows psychology.

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

The sad truth is that many behavioral economists know very little about psychology.

If we make people believe that before the age of 16 they got sick drinking vodka, they don't want to drink as much vodka.

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective.

I dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

Nissan is designing a car that will read the driver's mind. I already know what I'm going to do. I want a car that will read the other guy's mind.

I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.

Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

I love people and psychology. As a writer, I'm not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to go inside Fred's soul and play there.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

Of all the weapons we turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.