Psychology Quotes - Page 3

• There is a secret psychology of money. Most people don't know about it. That's why most people never become financially successful. A lack of money is not the problem; it is merely a symptom of what's going on inside of you.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Successful, People

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• A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

  Jerome Lawrence

  Science, Men, Air

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• ...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

  Heinz Kohut

  Sympathy, Men, Compassion

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Life, Relationship, Hope

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

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Love, Connections, Moments

  Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D. (2013). “Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection”, p.12, Penguin

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• I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

  Jean Vanier

  Teaching, Flow, Becoming

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• Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

  Carl Jung

  Farewell, Heart, Want

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• The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Women, Years

  Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1955).

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Fake People, Doe, Literature

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• Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

  Mason Cooley

  History, Effort, Trying

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• Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being

  Margaret Floy Washburn

  Mind, World, Emotion

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• If it's not one thing, it's your mother.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Pessimistic, Nine Months

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• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

  Edward de Bono

  Change, Attitude, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1971). “The use of lateral thinking”

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• Problem talk creates problems, Solution talk creates solutions.

  Steve de Shazer

  Talking, Focus, Relationship Problem

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• We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Usa, Joy

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• People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life, Wisdom, Creating

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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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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• Depression is the inability to construct a future.

  Rollo May

  Sad, Depression, Depressing

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, ch. 9, 1969.

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• We have been taught to wish for it, but the wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults , to our grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers off the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be our most violent form of nostalgia.

  Adam Phillips

  Mother, Understanding, Wish

  "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life".

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• When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

  Leon Festinger

  Trying, Cognitive Dissonance, Information

  Leon Festinger (1962). “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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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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• A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Character, Men

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.13, New Line Publishing

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• In chess, as in life, a man is his own most dangerous opponent.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Men, Opponents, Chess

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• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  Hans Eysenck

  Truth, Responsibility, Science

  Hans Eysenck (2017). “Rebel with a Cause”, p.129, Routledge

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