Psychology Quotes

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

~ Maria Montessori

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

~ Nathaniel Branden

All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

~ Tom Robbins

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

~ P.d. Ouspensky

People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceive assume everybody deceives.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998

~ Anna C. Salter

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

~ Idries Shah

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

~ Idries Shah

When creativity is seen as more important than facts, we will find ourselves in a world where problems are solved more often than spoken of.

~ Tarryn Tomlinson

How often – I continue reflecting – is it that we see what we want to see, rather than what is really before our eyes. In the trade we call this confirmation bias, and our brains are riddled with it. We take a position on something and thereafter only see whatever confirms that position, ignoring all evidence to the contrary.

~ John Dolan

The change of the word does not alter the matter

~ Thomas More

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: Human Nature.

~ Stefan Molyneux

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

~ Nathaniel Branden

It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.

~ John E. Sarno

My job is to assist you in finding the answer that is right for you. Not the answer that would be right for me.

~ John Dolan

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

~ John Dolan

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

~ Idries Shah

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

~ Virginia M. Axline

How old you would become if you don't know how young you are.

~ Chandan Sharma

Don't blame a person for the wrongdoings, Both He and You are Homo-sapiens.Don't greet a person for the rightdoings, Try to be a Homo-sapien.

~ Waqas Bin Ehsan

Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

~ Milan Kundera

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to be told that it's a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is and it will be their loss.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

There’s nothing lonelier than empty relationships. At least when you’re alone you can be yourself, but when you’re in empty relationships you can’t even be yourself.You can be real alone, or you can be a ghost with false friends.Pulse proximity is not intimacy, and it’s worse than no friends at all.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Perhaps the strangest thing about this illusion of control is not that it happens but that it seems to confer many of the psychological benefits of genuine control. In fact, the one group of people who seem generally immune to this illusion are the clinically depressed, who tend to estimate accurately the degree to which they can control events in most situation.

~ Daniel M. Gilbert

…if you cannot hate you cannot love. If you cannot bite you can not kiss. If you cannot curse you cannot bless. Who cannot be a good hater will be a poor lover.

~ Theodor Reik

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

~ Idries Shah

We are all the product of our past and have to live with our memories and personality they cannot be erased.

~ Jane Hersey

The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die.

~ Theodor Reik

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

~ Theodor Reik

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

~ Idries Shah

As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they know only their own side of the question.

~ Daniel M. Gilbert

Pulse proximity is not intimacy.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

~ Jane Hersey

The expression of preferences is the essence of love.

~ Stefan Molyneux

It was strange to find that love does not spring from abundance and richness of the ego, but is a way out of inner distress and poverty. We were surprised to discover that our first love is not directed either to another person or to ourselves, but to an imaginary ideal ego, to an image of ourselves as we would like to be. There are stranger discoveries awaiting us the more deeply we grope in the dark and the further we intrude into the secret places of the human heart.

~ Theodor Reik

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

~ Anton Chekhov

You must have something in order to give it up.

~ M. Scott Peck

As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband. Had she stayed with Bogey in Casablanca, she would probably have felt just fine. Not right away, perhaps, but soon, and for the rest of her life.

~ Daniel M. Gilbert

As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing, wearing multiple layers of clothes and, like my mother, I was bingeing on food. Of course I was still very much a lonely unsupported child myself when I got pregnant - one who had never been nurtured or mothered and as such I struggled with the responsibilities of parenthood.

~ Jane Hersey

The only voice of dissent you have to dispel is your own.

~ Anker Frankoni