Quotes About Psychology

I am convinced that a person doesn't only love himself in others; he also hates himself in others.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

And why, oh why, I wondered, had he named me after himself? What kind of a father would do that to his son? What could he have been thinking? Was it an excess of pride? Or was it, as my sister had once theorized, just the opposite, a deep-seated sense of inferiority that made our father want to double himself?

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

But one way or another we all have to come to terms with our own sexuality, and the ways that we do (and don't) will end up shaping our lives.

There are two pillars of happiness revealed by the seventy-five-year-old Grant Study (and exemplified by Dr. Godfrey Minot Camille). One is love. The other is finding a way of coping with life that does not push love away. And that is why I offer Dr. Camille's story as a sort of outline of the terrain we'll be covering through the rest of this book.

A human mind is the place where emotion and reason are locked in perpetual combat. Sadly for our species, emotion always wins.

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The human mind is infinitely complex. We make a myriad of decisions without even realizing it. Something causes us to roll the pen between our fingers while we're thinking.

Repeated exposure to fear-inducing stimuli creates familiarity, which in turn greatly reduces anxiety.

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

Believe me: if you are told that some experience is going to hurt, it will hurt. Much of pain is in the mind, and when a woman absorbs the idea that the act of giving birth is excruciatingly painful—when she gets this information from her mother, her sisters, her married friends, and her physician—that woman has been mentally prepared to feel great agony.

Con lei pensò Yves, con insolita irritazione bisognerebbe essere sempre psicologicamente in smoking. E io, ahimè, non posso permettermelo

Sometimes I feel I am crammed with demons.

The human mind is a weird place.

Lucas hated other people, and also hated himself.

At this point Bellamy suddenly remembered another dream which at the time had made him smile. He dreamt he was a little tiny frightened animal called 'Spingle-spangle'. Later he did not smile. The little doomed creature was an image of what he most feared, insanity.

He had for many years now been spared the demons, though he was constantly aware of their continued presence. He could hear them, as it were, moving behind the wall. They belonged to him and would doubtless go with him to the grave. His mind too, like David's, ran irresistibly to the horror.

You know as well as I do that one can be imprisoned in one's mind.

Perhaps his demons were quite other.

Every man is betrayed by his mother.

And oh, when we still used to sleep together, lying awake at night and finding one's only consolation in imagining in detail how one would go downstairs and find a hatchet and smash one's partners head in and mash it into a bloody pudding on the pillow!

For a sadist, it must huv aw the interest ay sticking pins intae a plastic doll.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.