Quotes About Psychology

This simple smile is the easiest expression to recognize. We found such smiles can be seen from further away (300 feet) and with a briefer exposure than other emotional expressions.

restricted to a single modality (face, or voice, or such autonomic nervous system changes as indicated by swallowing), it is an important flag that something important is happening which should be explored.

Before you develop a conscience, torture is amusing.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

The potent mix of Nietzschean philosophy, psychology, history, and clinical practice was leading him into new territory

According to Laing, the apparently incomprehensible and self-contradictory language of the schizophrenic is often a gnomic expression of the twisted truth that the patient is unable to express.

I came to see that for him, for most sociopaths, he had no memory—took no responsibility for anything he'd said or done—had no past, no history, it never happened. Memory is essential to conscience; he had no conscience.

What if she actually enjoyed her debasement?

They say that extroverts are unhappier than introverts and have to compensate for this by constantly proving to themselves how happy and contented and at ease with life they are.

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

Your personal devil tries three classical approaches : a threat, a promise, and an attack on your weak side.

On croirait qu'il y a en elle deux personnes : l'une silencieuse, lointaine, même un peu taciturne, l'autre très gaie, mais d'une gaieté trop forcée pour être de la vraie joie.

A headline-grabbing 2005 British study revealed that girls aged six to twelve enjoyed torturing, mutilating, and microwaving their Barbies nearly as much as they liked dressing them up for the prom. What

Psychologist Michael Thompson has pointed out that silence in the face of cruelty or sexism is how boys become men.

girls enjoy torturing, decapitating, and microwaving their Barbies nearly as much as they like to dress them up

interestingly, after age forty, men become the more dominant selfie posters—perhaps in midlife, women unconsciously render themselves invisible).

Chögyam Trungpa put it, "Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

I find anger so comforting. It's like a blanket made of unresolved issues, but it's a blanket none the less.

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.