4,465 Quotes About Psychology

May you find grace to endure every circumstance.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.

Regret comes from impulsive actions.

Не, благодаря – мисли той, – наместо възможности аз имам реални неща в моето минало, не само реалността на свършената работа и на изживяната любов, но и на храбро понесените страдания. Дори тези страдания са онова, с което се гордея най-много, макар и да не могат да възбудят завист.

A father hurt by his son realizes how much he hurt his father!

Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ignorance. I still haven't found an explanation for ignorance, because the ignorant are too ignorant to justify their ignorance.

Invalidating someone else is not merely disagreeing with something that the other person said. It is a process in which individuals communicate to another that the opinions and emotions of the target are invalid, irrational, selfish, uncaring, stupid, most likely insane, and wrong, wrong, wrong. Invalidators let it be known directly or indirectly that their targets views and feelings do not count for anything to anybody at any time or in any way.

In subsequent studies, Warneken and Tomasello found that children were willing to help even when doing so involved hardship and interrupting their play.Interestingly, they also found that rewarding the children was counterproductive. The children who were rewarded for helping were later less likely to help than those who had never been rewarded. Studies also show that infants as young as six months demonstrate clear preference for toys that enact helping behavior rather than hindering.

We, the human race, don't value children, we say we do but we don't. If we did, the legal system would be completely different globally.