4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything---evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing---it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. We look at the world around us as a snapshot when it was really a movie, constantly changing.

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

Research is an endless loop of failures interspersed with occasional profound discoveries.

You are the most lucky person in the world, only if you BELIEVE so.