Quotes About Psychology

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

El insulto mental sólo admite el tuteo.

Lo malo de gobernar por el miedo es que al final tú mismo acabas viviendo con miedo;

An employer's decision-making process is less rational than you might think.

If Freudianism is true, the most immoral people, or at best the most amoral people, should be the healthiest, whereas in fact the opposite is true. People in mental institutions and people who come to counseling invariably are people with great moral difficulties.

La seducción es manipulación, la manipulación es la mitad de la argumentación y, por consiguiente, muchos de nosotros la rehuimos.

Gottman descubrió que las parejas que habían seguido casadas durante esos nueve años discutían prácticamente lo mismo que las que habían acabado en divorcio.

A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.

sublimation concept—in which the term refers to an actual deinstinctualization of drive rather than to a rechanneling of

I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.

For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.

Torture has an indelible character. Whoever was tortured, stays tortured.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

was a skill she had always inwardly marveled at when she discovered it in one of her patients, the smooth transitions and fancy footwork with which someone took a nugget of non-negotiable fact, modified it on the spot, and handed it back, an altogether new and tangible animal