4,465 Quotes About Psychology

[W]hile liberals aren't always right, conservatives are vastly more wrong today about science and the facts in general.

[W]hen we think we're reasoning we may instead be rationalizing. [...] We may think we're being scientists, but we're actually being lawyers. Our "reasoning" is a means to a predetermined end - winning our case[.]

[M]ost people are afraid to think about the possibility that their most cherished beliefs might have a psychological basis, rather than simply a basis in fact.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

How we relate to our thoughts and feelings makes all the difference.

The self itself isn't a problem, since remembering who we are when we wake up each morning is very helpful. Instead, the problem is the extent to which we get caught up in the drama of our lives and take it personally when something happens to us (good or bad).

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone. A lie which was always more disastrous than the truth would have been.

The playwright George Bernard Shaw also warned of how difficult it is to introduce a new paradigm of thinking — especially one that dares to confront the historically unbearably confronting and off-limits subject of the human condition — when he said that ‘All great truths begin as blasphemies’ (Annajanska, 1919).

Here too, we can see that not being open to learning something new does not automatically make someone a narcissist. In fact, a narcissist is required to be more knowledgeable in many fields; mostly in psychology.