Quotes About Psychology

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief

When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

For every man that ever walked the Earth, except maybe the sociopaths, when it comes to talking to pretty girls... it's just stark terror.

... no man can be psychologically castrated without his co-operation!

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Although some Western psychologies believe that the dreamer should not control the dream, according to Tibetan teachings this is a wrong view. It is better for the lucid and aware dreamer to control the dream than for the dreamer to be dreamed. The same is true with thoughts: it is better for the thinker to control the thoughts than for the thoughts to control the thinker.

Basic psychological theory holds that we learn to trust, to feel safe — or not — when we're so young. It happens by the time we're two years old, and it depends on how well our basic needs are met. Whether people fed us, held us, comforted us, whether we were in a place where we felt safe.

With no one there to help modulate your feelings, you did a very smart thing as that little boy. You shut them down. Closed a door on them.

In this regard, we are all a type of narcissist. None of us sees ourselves directly—our self-perceptions are filtered through acquired knowledge.