4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

[E]very emotion represents self-interest (self-love modified) orself-evidence. Owning up to all of our self-representation and object-representation is to recognize the full nature of our identity.

I get happy and I get sad,just like anybody elsebut they call this a disorder.

Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside.

Everything, every move, was calculated, in a mathematical, inhuman fashion. That gave the phantasmal illusion of the incandescent characteristics of man.’ It brought me an immeasurable sense of pride, that I could deceive people so easily. It created an infinite sense of distance between us, as if we were in different dimensions. That only a minute fragment of my real self was present in my countenance, tone, and gestures.

The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.

Dissociation of the mind into logic-tight compartments is by no means confined to the population of the asylum. It is a common, and perhaps inevitable, occurrence in the psychology of every human being. Our political convictions are notoriously inaccessible to argument, and we preserve the traditional beliefs of our childhood in spite of the contradictory facts constantly presented by our experience.