Psychology Quotes

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned " "Everything is inertia to sadness, not to happiness. " "Without madness, there is no humanity." "The world is not driven by greed; it's driven by envy" "He who wishes to deceive will never fail to find willing dupes." "When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune" "People know what they do. Frequently, they know why they do what they do. But what they don’t know is what what they do does." "If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion." "The most powerful mind-altering substance is the human soul" "We are closest to people when we promise them something that can never be delivered" "The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness" "We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation" "Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy." "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind" "In time we hate that which we often fear" "Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions." "Everyone is a potential murderer—in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill—though not the will to kill." "The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions" "Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others"