4,465 Quotes About Psychology

The goal of parenting is to create self-sufficient virtues in children. Applying external pressure and punishments tends to teach them fear-based compliance rather than the internalization of moral standards.

Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.

All we think about in the cycle of violence is men. If we miss the oestrogen factor we cannot solve the cycle of violence. We cannot bring peace to the world unless we hold women accountable and morally responsible, particularly for their attacks upon children.

The rules of syntax and intonation and words matured over time into the system we have today because they were progressively refined by use and the forge of survival and reproduction - not because the brain got big and complicated for some other reason, and all of a sudden we discovered we could now manipulate symbols as well.

In life, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have on hand.

The so-called mystical characters of India, whom you call in many ways, such as “swami”, “baba” and “guru” are nothing but an informal, cheap and primitive substitute for modern psychotherapists or counsellors.

It is important to leave behind a rich and memorable legacy than just accumulated history!

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.