4,465 Quotes About Psychology

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

I still think that, in a way, I can't get past half my childhood dogmas.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

People generally can not believe themselves so easily manipulated and controllable. This is precisely why they are so easy to manpulate and contol.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.—address to the Society for Psychical Research in England

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

what is significant about rejection, as a source of neurotic anxiety, is how it is interpreted by the child. In impact upon the child, there is radical difference between rejection as an objective experience (which does not necessarily result in subjective conflict for the child), and rejection as a subjective experience. The important question psychologically is whether the child felt himself or herself rejected.

The truth is that far more people would rather be rich than happy