4,465 Quotes About Psychology

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

I’ve always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask...

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.

If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

The moment we make up our minds that we are going on with this determination to exalt God overall, we step out of the worldís parade... We acquire a new viewpoint; a new and different psychology will be formed within us; a new power will begin to surprise us by its upsurgings and its outgoings.

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.