4,465 Quotes About Psychology

I slipped in and out of worlds that weren’t there. I wrote letters to fictitious characters. I was passing into catatonic states more times than not. It required a concerted amount of effort to keep myself here in this world. I was a runaway. I tried to slit my wrists. I was clinical, and I knew how to hide my condition.

Black and white, good and evil, is just a way to simplify life and make it easier for people to deal with. People love it too; that’s why so many people go to church on a Sunday.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift.

...high inequality is associated with higher rates of crime, greater risk of stress-related illness, and greater political polarization.

Human's intrinsic nature manifest in it's misunderstandings

No amount of therapy, dream analysis, word association, experiment or brain-scanning can recover a person’s ‘true motives’, not because they are difficult to find, but because there is nothing to find. It is not hard to plumb our mental depths because they are so deep and so murky, but because there are no mental depths to plumb.

The focus on talent distracts us from something that is at least as important, and that is effort. As much as talent counts, effort counts twice.

You are your mind, so if you can see it, you can achieve it.

Live with technology, not through technology.