Psychology Quotes

"The pleasure we find in thinking about the future comes not from imagining achieving our goals, but from the secret hope that we will somehow no longer be ourselves when we get there." "Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence" "There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion" "To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends" "Inside every man there are two wolves battling" "Fear is such a strong passion that it compels all other natural affections and by consequence all resolutions" "Memory and habit are the two things you can't live without." "The work of memory collapses time" "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." "The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior righteous indignation — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats." "Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind." "People are more likely to accept an idea if you can make them think it was their own." "Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity" "Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe" "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are" "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe" "We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves " "People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive" "One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit and losing is the same way" "The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts"