Quotes About Psychology

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

Women do not dress specifically for men or against other women. They dress for their subconscious.

Guilt, the poor man's mind control.

Oh yes! The one man in the world who never believes he's mad is the madman.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.

That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

Most American men are repressors.

A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

I came to Freud for facts. I read 'The Interpretation of Dreams' and I thought- 'Oh, here is a man who is not just theorizing away, here is a man who has got facts.

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.