4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

We pay attention to what we are told to attend to, or what we're looking for, or what we already know...what we see is amazingly limited.

Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess.

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. I still think about it. I'll always have to think about it.

Try and set yourself the task not to think of a white bear, and the cursed thing comes to mind every minute.

If I have seen further than those before me, it is because I did not engage in the frauds.

Love, experienced thus, is a constant challenge; it is not a resting place, but moving, growing, working together; even when there is harmony or conflict, joy or sadness, is secondary to the fundamental fact that two people experience themselves, rather than by fleeing from themselves. There is only one proof for the presence of love: the depth of the relationship, and the aliveness and strength in each person concerned; this is the fruit by which love is recognized.

Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.