Top Psychology Quotes

Families that feel together, heal together.

We now expect more from technology and less from each other.

Psychology Definition

(n.) The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.

We shouldn't judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should just leave them the hell alone.

We are poor indeed if we are only sane.

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

إنه لمن المضحك-المبكي أن تصير أخلاقنا الحسنة بالتحديد في صالح الشرطة، والسبب أننا لم نتعلم الكذب. فصيغة الأمر: «قل الحقيقة!» التي رسّخها آباؤها وأمهاتنا في أذهاننا، تجعلنا نشعر بطريقةٍ آلية بالعار حين...

It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately sup...

Modern man thinks he loses something-time-when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains- except kill it.

Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment...

To spoil means to put no limit on caprice, to give one the impression that everything is permitted to him and that he has no obligations. The young child exposed to this regime has no experience of it...

Laughter is a threat to aging.

We should not judge people or try to figure out what makes them tick. We should leave them the hell alone.

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave y...

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationships. Yet each of us is a single point of consciousness, a unique event, a private, unrepeatable world...

You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.

Psychologists have devised some ingenious ways to help unpack the human now. Consider how we run those jerky movie frames together into a smooth and continuous stream. This is known as the phi phenome...