Psychologist Quotes

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Fake People, Psychology, Doe

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• Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

  Gerald Edelman

  Brain, Encounters, Development

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• Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

  Erich Fromm

  Ideas, Numbers, Culture

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Sane Society”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 11 (1962)

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• I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that, in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else.

  Martha Stout

  Thinking, Listening, Suggestions

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.141, Harmony

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

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

  Carl Rogers (2012). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

  Martin Seligman

  Sports, Medicine, People

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• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Thoughtful, Shoes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000
  and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about
  ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability
  and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making
  certain they're always positive.

  Jack Canfield

  Thinking, Keys, Hours

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• A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

  Alex Flinn

  Shoes, Psychology, Individuality

  Alex Flinn (2011). “Cloaked”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

  Carl Jung

  Humor, Fate, Grandchildren

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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• I'm an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what's going on.

  Tom Hardy

  Kind, Armchairs, Knows

  "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Tom Hardy interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

  Carl Jung

  Drinking, Recovery, Overcoming Addiction

  Memories, Dreams, Reflections ch. 12 (1962)

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• Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

  Jacques Barzun

  Summer, Winter, Swim

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• God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.

  Thomas Keating

  Sublime, Psychiatrist, Willing

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

  Joyce Brothers

  Love, Romantic, Women

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

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• If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.

  David Allen

  Education, Perspective, Innovation

  Twitter post from Apr 03, 2009

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• Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, People, Watches

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• One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.

  Martin Seligman

  Believe, Opposites, Suffering

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• No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Book, Thinking, Philosopher

  First Public Talk, Bangalore, India, January 30, 1971.

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