Psychology Quotes - Page 4

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

  Bernard Williams

  Happiness, Dog, Nature

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• There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

  Thomas Szasz

  Biographies, Autobiography

  The Second Sin

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  Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  Carl Jung

  Funny, Depression, Witty

  Quoted in the Observer, 19 Jul 1975.

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• There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the most dangerous outcome of all, because a success of that kind can encourage you to take more bad bets in the future, when the odds will be running against you. You can also lose a good bet no matter how sound the underlying proposition, but if you keep placing good bets, over time, the law of averages will be working for you.

  Larry Hite

  Success, Running, Winning

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• Any experienced player knows how a change in the character of the play influences your psychological mood.

  Garry Kasparov

  Character, Player, Playing Chess

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• Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Science, Keys, Mind

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• Don't take anything personally. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. Their point of view and opinion come from all the programming they received growing up. When you take things personally, you feel offended and your reaction is to defend your beliefs and create conflict. You make something big out of something so little because you have the need to be right and make everybody else wrong.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Growing Up, Insults You

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

  Carl Rogers

  Optimistic, People, Looks

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  The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Dream, Sleep

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing

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• One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, Power, Psychics

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• We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.

  Douglas Adams

  Winning, Fjords, Care

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Life, the Universe and Everything”, p.75, Pan Macmillan

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• If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Trying, Made, Ifs

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• Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Fall, Reality

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• If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Cutting, Smell, Lasts

  D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

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• The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Mind, Distress

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.235

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• Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sleep, Ideas, Green

  Syntactic Structures ch. 2 (1957)

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• Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Firsts, Physiological

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• Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

  Rollo May

  Freedom, Men, Hands

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There is no such thing as a successful defense.

  George S. Patton

  Sports, Successful, Defense

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• Psychology, which explains everything,
  Explains nothing,
  And we are still in doubt.

  Marianne Moore

  Political, Doubt, Stills

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.62, Penguin

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• Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Trying, Facts, Mystery

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• A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.

  Susan Sontag

  History, Matter, Way

  "Illness As Metaphor" by Susan Sontag, ch. 7 (pp. 55-56), 1978.

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• What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance. It is not something that money can buy or power command. It does not depend on outside events, but, rather, on how we interpret them. Happiness, in fact, is a condition that must be prepared for, cultivated, and defended privately by each person. People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Happiness, Happy, Discovery

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• Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Facts, Proud Woman

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1160, GENERAL PRESS

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• Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

  Karen Horney

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Karen Horney (1967). “Feminine Psychology”

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