Quotes About Psychology

When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.

All children are essentially criminal.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Years later I realised he left sex out when he came to Maslow's list of physiological needs. I don't blame him.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

Leaders evoke emotional connections in followers only to the extent that the followers are emotionally needy.

The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution.

There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.

To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.