Psychology Quotes

Psychology is the science of mental life

William James

Are you seeking to be offended?

Asa Don Brown

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

Viktor E. Frankl

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

Oliver Sacks

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Michael Crichton

How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.

Benjamin Zander

She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners.

Christina Westover

Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.

Asa Don Brown

The power-hungry individual follows a path to his own destruction.

Adler

Thoughts, words, emotions

Allan Lokos

It's tucked away behind my eyes, where all my f*cked up thoughts can hide, 'cause God forbid I hurt somebody...

Tim Minchin

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

Herbert A. Simon

Good, capable individuals unconsciously and consciously guard and nurture themselves and their spirits every day in all sorts of choices, large and small. Just as their lives are never static, they are rarely if ever fractured. Their morals and ethics are never cut off from the whole of their evolving beings.

Donald Van de Mark

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

Oscar Wilde

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.

Asa Don Brown

There is but one study for me in life and that is of the human condition with its laboriousness in human frailty and its perfectly flawed existence. The evolutionary process of each journey is an exacting attempt to demonstrate meaning in one's life.

Julie Hardesty

Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.

Judith Henry Wall

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

Abraham Maslow

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history

Herman Ebbinghaus