4,465 Quotes About Psychology

It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.

Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.

So much of what the self-love movement gets wrong is the result of viewing the self as somekind of monolithic and singular entity. That’s how we’ve been taught to experience ourselves.But when we put ourselves under the microscope, when we take a good look inside, that viewstarts to unravel. We begin to experience our inner lives as fluid, dynamic, multifaceted, vast,and surprising.

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.

One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people who trust you; only you will know you have no intention of honoring your promise. Whose knowledge or judgment do you imagine is more important? It is precisely your own ego from which there is no escape.

All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in their imaginary worlds, because that's where they're in charge - where they're God. Did you know that Hemingway's mother dressed him as a girl until he was six years old?"I was not offended by Claudia's glib psychological theory. Like many glib psychological theories, it struck me as fundamentally correct.

The virtues developed here in the age range [around the age of 2] of are trust or faith, and will power and self determination according to the Erickson model. The existential questions being addressed here in this stage are, can one trust the world? and, is it alright to be myself?

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?