4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Social anxiety results from being around people who are resolutely opposed to who you are.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

. . . the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.

She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.