Psychology Quotes

• The brain is wider than the sky.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Learning, Sky

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

  Paul Dudley White

  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, Wisdom, Humorous

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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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  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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• The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

  Paul Valery

  Ideas, Giving, Different

  "Tel Quel". Book by Paul Valery, 1943.

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• True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

  Daniel Goleman

  Pain, Mean, Helping Others

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• Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

  Albert Bandura

  Mean, People, Social

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Idleness is the parent of psychology.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Parent, Idleness

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• Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

  Amy Cuddy

  Motivation, Inspiration, Fake

  Amy Cuddy (2015). “Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges”, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Carl Jung

  Truth, Mistake, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1968). “pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious”

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• The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways

  Russell Barkley

  Love, Children, Kids

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

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• Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

  William James

  Teamwork, Men, Two

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• The smaller the detail the greater the value.

  Doug Johnson

  Sports, Details, Greater

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• Through others we become ourselves.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Identity, Imitation

  "The history of the development of higher mental functions (Vol. 4, pp. 97-120)". Book by R. Reiber, 1997.

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• If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.

  Reuven Feuerstein

  Strength, Weakness, Looks

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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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• Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Eye, Perception

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  The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes”, p.34, Random House

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• Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

  Sigmund Freud

  Maturity, Mature, Ability

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• If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.

  Ole Ivar Lovaas

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

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• 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.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Attitude, People, Perspective

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• When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.

  Carl Jung

  Facts, Individual, Speculation

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