67 Quotes About Psychology

The field of psychology can be a mystery to many people. It is a very complicated subject, requiring a lot of dedication and effort in order to understand it. The below collection of quotes from the world's most influential psychologists will inspire you to follow your dreams and reach your goals.

Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths...
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Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped. Eraldo Banovac
It has been my personal experience that as I allow...
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It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own. Luther E. Vann
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We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay..., from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from our relations with other men... This last source is perhaps more painful to use than any other. (p77) Sigmund Freud
3 Types of People You Will Encounter. Those who:1) Promise...
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3 Types of People You Will Encounter. Those who:1) Promise and Deliver, 2) Under-promise and Over-deliver, 3) Over-promise and Under-deliver. Izey Victoria Odiase
Only the right pain gets the right gain.
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Only the right pain gets the right gain. Max McKeown
The best things happen to those who don't wait.
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The best things happen to those who don't wait. Max McKeown
If life is fast, live faster.
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If life is fast, live faster. Max McKeown
Embrace the perpetual joy of moving perpetually forward.
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Embrace the perpetual joy of moving perpetually forward. Max McKeown
All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead...
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All the repressed emotions and subconscious desires in time lead to some kind of psychological or physiological breakdown, if kept unchecked. Abhijit Naskar
Not everyone who owns it, Loves it; nor everyone who...
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Not everyone who owns it, Loves it; nor everyone who Loves it, Can own it! Ramana Pemmaraju
Now I get why I'm incapable of flirting for I...
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Now I get why I'm incapable of flirting for I can't Lie! Ramana Pemmaraju
You don't marry a woman because you love her, you...
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You don't marry a woman because you love her, you do because you're MAD for her. Ramana Pemmaraju
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which...
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PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free. Stanley Victor Paskavich
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We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU! Ramana Pemmaraju
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Before you work with me you must know that I am an atheist and I believe in neither supreme powers of any God or the trickery of the Devil, I am student of the criminal psychology and believe that behind every murder there is psychopath at work with some insidious agenda at play and motive unknown to human mind. Adhish Mazumder
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SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain. Stanley Victor Paskavich
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Tell us which ideas you promote and we will know which type of person you are. Eraldo Banovac
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You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the door step for footprints of bitterness! When you mind your mind, you mind your mind, you mind your heart, you mind your body and you mind your spirit! The only rest stop in your body for bitterness is your mind. Don’t forget! mind your mind! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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You shall only continue to feel bitter when you continue to make your mind the doorstep for footprints of bitterness! When you mind your mind, you mind your mind, you mind your heart, you mind your body and you mind your spirit! The only rest stop in your body for bitterness is your mind. Don’t forget! Mind your mind! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The root of identity crises: we seem to know a lot about ourselves, but we can't tell who we are. Realize your self! Stefan Emunds
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Memory is the binding foam of our mental life. Abhijit Naskar
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Optimism: things will go my way. Positivism: everything is perfect right here and now, whether I like it or not. Stefan Emunds
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Making Love is different form having Sex. While the former recharges you with orgasmic experience, the latter dissipates your energy, leaving you sapless. So act wisely! Ramana Pemmaraju
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Pressure makes diamonds - or not. Stefan Emunds
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There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child. Asa Don Brown
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Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it. Pierre Bourdieu
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DENIALDefense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety. Benjamin James Sadock
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Don’t focus on the action, focus on the mentality behind the action. Analyzing the mentality will help us differentiate between a one-time error and a long-term character flaw. Izey Victoria Odiase
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The so-called mystical characters of India, whom you call in many ways, such as “swami”, “baba” and “guru” are nothing but an informal, cheap and primitive substitute for modern psychotherapists or counsellors. Abhijit Naskar
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There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding Stanley Victor Paskavich
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Men most often know what they want, yet they are not always sure how they feel. Women most often know how they feel, yet they may not always know what they want. Ken Poirot
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Man can be categorized into three levels on social strata: One who are Consciously Unconscious, second who are Unconsciously Conscious - while both are inter-dependent for their survival; the third by and large a rare breed, Consciously Conscious sect — who don’t ever relate to this world! Ramana Pemmaraju
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People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves. Anna Agoncillo
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Most people think that if you do not love yourself fully, no one else will. That is not true. People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves. Anna Agoncillo
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There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified. Michael Connelly
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The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted predisposing vulnerability factors for developing PTSD, at the expense of recognizing the reality of their patients' experiences… This search for predisposing factors probably had its origins in the need to deny that all people can be stressed beyond endurance, rather than in solid scientific data; until recently such data were simply not available… When the issue of causation becomes a legitimate area of investigation, one is inevitably confronted with issues of man's inhumanity to man, with carelessness and callousness, with abrogation of responsibility, with manipulation and with failures to protect. Unknown
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Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death- being forced to witness abusive acts on others- being forced to make impossible "choices"- boundaries smashed i.e. by the use of forced nakedness, shame, embarrassment- hoaxes, 'set ups', testing and tricks- being forced to hurt others Ritual abuse survivors often describe much the same things. Laurie Matthew
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The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling awareness of the cause in the past. We must be sensitive to that feeling and accept it in order to chase down the cause, ferret it out, reassess the value of the experience to us in order not to further project the blame in anger outward to an external cause. Martha Char Love
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This is the law of nature that every person who is born has to go through certain kind of painful experiences. Thepainful issues keep coming throughout life. As you progress on the spiritual path their impact become lesser and lesser and finally a stage would come where you can achieve liberation from Stress and unhappiness forever.- Subodh Gupta author, "Stress Management a Holistic Approach -5 steps Plan". Subodh Gupta
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Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is. Charles F. Glassman
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Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. Megan Chance
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A Martial Artist may become A professional fighter but not every Fighter is capable of becoming A martial artist. Martial Arts are about restoration of physical and spiritual balance and fluidity; they are about observing restraints and 'setting example'. Every practice session is A reminder of the play of opposites (yin and yang), .. .. Soke Behzad Ahmadi
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Life is full of issues no matter what social status you enjoy in society, only the nature of issue would be different. You solve one issue, other would come and they would be keep on coming till you are alive. This is a reality and nobody can escape from this truth.- Subodh Gupta author, "Stress Management a Holistic Approach -5 steps Plan". Subodh Gupta
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If you focus your mind on problem, the problem would become bigger and bigger and you get into the circle of worrying and then your mind gives you the false impression that the problem is very big and mind than start multiplying your worries without any actual basis and you see no way of coming out of it. To come out of the problems you need to focus on solutions. -Subodh Gupta author, "Stress Management a Holistic Approach -5 steps Plan". Subodh Gupta
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Nothing is permanent in this world. Everything is changing, so no matter what problem or issue you are having inyour life at the moment, it would also change sooner or later but of course you need to take positive action too.- Subodh Gupta author, "Stress Management a Holistic Approach -5 steps Plan". Subodh Gupta
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Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind. Fakeer Ishavardas
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You know what is the most complicated feature of human nature? It is the term complication itself. We are never satisfied with keeping things simple. We always tend to exaggerate even the simplest phenomenon of this planet. Abhijit Naskar
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Humans are beasts, until tamed. Fakeer Ishavardas
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Humans are mostly kind only to their own-self, and their own. To another being, they're mostly indifferent, if not inhumane. Fakeer Ishavardas
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Checked thoroughly, humans stink. Fakeer Ishavardas
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It is not the oppositions a man face that determine his rise or fall in life but his tenacity to dare to soar and to pursue to higher heights Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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There is always a choice. Always. So do not say, you had no choice. Good or bad, doing it or not, is about you, not choices. Always. Fakeer Ishavardas
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An experimental analysis shifts the determination of behaviour from autonomous man to the environment - an environment responsible both for the evolution of the species and for the repertoire acquired by each member. Early versions of environmentalism were inadequate because they could not explain how the environment worked, and much seemed to be left for autonomous man to do. But environmental contingencies now take over functions once attributed to autonomous man, and certain questions arise. Is man then 'abolished'? Certainly not as a species or as an individual achiever. It is the autonomous inner man who is abolished, and that is a step forward. But does man not then become merely a victim or passive observer of what is happening to him? He is indeed controlled by his environment, but we must remember that it is an environment largely of his own making. The evolution of a culture is a gigantic exercise in self-control. It is often said that a scientific view of man leads to wounded vanity, a sense of hopelessness, and nostalgia. But no theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. And a new theory may change what can be done with its subject matter. A scientific view of man offers exciting possibilities. We have not yet seen what man can make of man. Skinner
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All men are great for they convey something through their deeds and while most of them do from their misdeeds! Ramana Pemmaraju
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Sometimes, we miss the truth when it's right in front of us, she thought. Sometimes the closer we are, the harder it is to see. Jacqueline Simon Gunn
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People complain about cold weather during winter, about hot weather during summer and about rain in rainyseason. People who are single are depressed that they are single, those who are married think that singlesare having more fun, people with darker skin want to get fair skin, people with white skin want tanning and the list never ends. Sometimes I think what wouldhappen to people’s life if you take their complaining habit out of their life? -Subodh Gupta author, "Stress Management a Holistic Approach-5 Steps Plan . Subodh Gupta
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The point is there is no point in life! Live the Moment! Ramana Pemmaraju
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#1 Dating Tip: Make Sure Your Date has a Conscience! P. A. Speers
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Your EGO feeds on the volume of the mental clutter, the greater the intensity the more crystallized is your EGO. Man dominates and exherts his mental superiority over others. Be Aware! Stop Mental Clutter, Kill EGO, Be YOU! Ramana Pemmaraju
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Don't worry, everyone is mentally ill, they just haven’t figured out a name for yours yet. Chris Sprudz
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Its amazing thought of love with a specific person , how can creates a storm to touch . Litymunshi
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One of the easiest things in life is to judge others. One of the simplest things we can ever do is to tell how wrong people are. One of the most thoughtless things we can ever do is to show people their faults unconstructively. It is always so easy and common to do such things but, before you do that, find the uncommon reasons for the faulty life. Yes! before you do that, identify how to correct a faulty life and before you do that, think of what drives and invokes the joy, slothfulness or the melancholy in people. Until you go through what people have been through, until you experience what has become a part of people, until you understand what drives the real interest of people and until you become fully aware of the real vision, aspirations, desires and the needs of others, ponder before you criticize! . Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Until now Psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification, but VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION is the latest to take over, Beware! Ramana Pemmaraju
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People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self. Fakeer Ishavardas
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When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves. Claire Chilton
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Most people are scumbags. Accept it. Let go. Chill out, douchebags. Fakeer Ishavardas