4,465 Quotes About Psychology

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

A person can't change all at once.

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.