4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost.

Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.

If someone asks you a question and you don't know the answer, belittle them. It's better to be an asshole than look stupid.

Everything is up to psychology and Mindset.

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.

Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.

I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

Psychology is a condensed version of mindset; whereas philosophy is an abstract of the human society.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.