4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.

In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience

The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").

The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.

Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my fault, but I couldn't “BELIEVE” it! Then I was talking to my friend Kieran and he explained to me in a way that I could PERCEIVE that I was not at fault. No one else could ever do that before, though many tried. Many, many people had tried to tell me it wasn't my fault, but I was convinced it was my fault because I was trying to cheer up my dad.

You are already the awakeness that you seek!

The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception

Writing is a series of verbal suggestions designed to provoke a psychological reaction and an aesthetic experience.