Best Psychology Quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

If you want to change other people, a much better way to do it is to first understand who we are, understand our moral psychology, understand that we all think we’re right.

Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being.

Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

I’m afraid you can’t create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

I think that moral philosophy is useful for framing questions, but terrible at answering them. I think moral psychology is booming right now, and we’re making a lot of progress on understanding how we actually work, what our moral nature is.

With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.

A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

Oh! This’ll impress you – I’m actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I’m a PEZ dispenser and I’m in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can’t have it all?

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature – of which spirit is a part – need fear no premature decline.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would… have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

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

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

I don’t believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses.

Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the intellectual challenge of the markets is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a fistfight. Ultimately, trading is an exercise in self-mastery and endurance.

Sickness is real. However, I’ve seen too many people suffering with sicknesses not of their own choosing to say glibly that all sickness is caused by sin. On the other hand, to believe that sin does not exist and that all of our trials and tribulations have naturalistic explanations or are simply random events may cause us to miss the very solution we seek. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland observed that too many people . . . want to sin and call it psychology.

It is the ‘zoomorphic’ or ‘rattomorphic’ fallacy – the expressed or implicit contention that there is no essential difference between rat and man – which makes American psychology so profoundly disturbing.

I got into psychology simply because that’s what my sister did, and I grew up in a family that was very like, follow your sister’s footsteps. I went to the same school she went to, did the same degree she did … really had no interest in it, to be honest.

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or essence, their nature may differ most profoundly.

Inspirational Psychology brings peace and choice to life even in the most difficult of situations.

More succinctly put, Inspirational Psychology offers ways to live, learn about, and practice love.

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.