Top Psychology Quotes

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".

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.

Shakespeare was a far better psychologist than Freud, and Jane Austen a far better sociologist than Durkheim

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

The easiest thing for a person is to accept everything as it is and adjust with everyone in the surroundings by sacrificing or compromising originality, but it's also the worst thing if he proclaims t...

Not all friends know they have lost you.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have...

We are all capable of becoming something monstrous.

You are the result of the tension between who you think you should be and what you really are.

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while...

The root of identity crises: we seem to know a lot about ourselves, but we can't tell who we are. Realize your self!

You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your colour, class, gender - and so on - these are quite narrow things. You are not the ideas you are given a...

الوقت الإنساني لا يسير في شكل دائري بل يتقدم في خط مستقيم. من هنا، لا يمكن للإنسان أن يكون سعيداً لأن السعادة رغبة في التكرار.

But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existe...

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

two great questions exist in each day; 'what must I do excellently today?' for morning and 'what did I do wrong or right today?' for evening. When we fail to know the real reasons why we wake up each...

Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.

Science and Truth are simple phenomenon of nature, but it is the known that is preventing us from mastering the unknown.

Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There is an appropriate and necessary difference in the...

Individuality is but another act of segregation. We need instead learn the process of Individuation. One is to know thyself merely to be a single brick within the wall of mass creation and group consc...