4,465 Quotes About Psychology

I don't think psychoanalysis is nonsense necessarily; I just don't see the point of it. An analyst can find out where the problem lie, but a witch from the jungle can do that as well. If I'm not allowed to live my own life, no psychologist is ever going to be able to help me. The real problem is that most people don't live their lives, they just get by somehow.

Of all the animals on earth, only the human is born with the capacity to conquer its animal nature.

God is the placebo for the masses, it may solve trivial problems of society, but to treat the big issues, what is required is actual medicine, that is, actual, tangible human intervention.

What do you think it means?" she says in a low, conspiratorial voice."What do YOU think it means?" I say. It's an old psychologist move, that one.

Prejudice is grounded on sentiments, that's where reason must intervene, and coldness is grounded on logic, that's where warmth must prevail.

We tend to prefer the "certainty of misery to the misery of uncertainty" (Virginia Satir)

World has become a market. In a market, things that don't sell disappear. Love doesn't sell, sympathy sells. Love has disappeared, sympathy is all that is left. We either play victim to get sympathy or we search for victims to give sympathy.

Wonders Does Psychology Reverse.

A major sign of insecurity is constantly comparing oneself with others.