Psychology Quotes

I hadn't realized how much one small gesture can mean.

You don't get to say who you are, your behavior speaks for you.

The problem with economists is that they have the reasoning skills of pop-psychologists and the charisma of mathematicians.

Learn, compare, collect the facts!

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

It's time for policy makers to start paying attention, and listen to psychologists a little bit instead of economists.

Es ist durchaus nicht dasselbe, die Wahrheit über sich zu wissen oder sie von anderen hören zu müssen.

In college I was a psychology major at the same time as being a computer-science major. I say that fairly frequently, and people can't understand it. It's like, obviously I'm a CS person! But I was always interested in how those two things combined. For me, computers were always just a way to build good stuff, not like an end in itself.

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Anatomy is destiny.

I was in analysis. I was suicidal. As a matter of fact, I would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian and if you kill yourself they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

Tak semua daun berwarna hijau.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. we are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.