4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

We shouldn't judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should just leave them the hell alone.

There is no crime in anyone’s blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others. Criminals are not born. They are made by hunger, want and injustice.

The college bookstore was a splash of life, culture, and society. As a psychology student, I often found myself intrigued by the behavior, ways of thinking and feeling, and general schemata of others, and this was the perfect spot to engage my senses.Other times, I was just annoyed.

The unconscious operation of the attachment system via internal working models probably plays an important part in the choice of marital partner and relationship patterns in marriage. Holmes (1993) has described a pattern of 'phobic-counterphobic' marriage in which an ambivalently attached person will be attracted to an avoidant 'counter-phobic' spouse in a system of mutual defence against separation anxiety.

The best doctors are the ones that can get inside your head and fix something without making a hole.

To a Mormon at the doorstep of a psychologis: I know what you think you think, but I know what you think.

Psychopaths act out their lunatic ideas while the rest of us just think them.

It’s hard to love an emotionally blocked parent who expects honor and special treatment but tries to control and dismiss you at the same time