4,465 Quotes About Psychology

You are the result of the tension between who you think you should be and what you really are.

People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

A faith so weak that it is not sufficient unto itself but requires that others tiptoe around it for fear of hurting it, knows deep down that it is a lie.

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real.

Experimental studies consistently point out that the popular remedy for anger, ventilation, is really worse than useless. In fact, the reverse seems to be true: expressing anger tends to make you even angrier and solidifies an angry attitude.

Awareness is the novelty of our youth

We have seen that when an emotional learning or schema is theunderlying cause of a therapy client’s presenting symptom, theschema can be retrieved into direct, explicit experience and thenprofoundly unlearned and dissolved by the same sequence ofexperiences that neuroscientists identified in reconsolidationresearch