Psychology Quotes

"The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself " "The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become " "Everything is governed by interest " "I would rather try to persuade a man to go along because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him he will stay just as long as he is scared and then he is gone" "Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures." "Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack." "We are all ready to be savage in some cause" "The smaller the mind the greater the conceit " "I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that dogs think humans are nuts." "In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior" "The problem with ideologies is that they fail to take into account the inherent complexity of human nature." "The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths." "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion." "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion" "A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong." "In order to be an object of desire, it is necessary to get some distance from oneself" "People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice." "Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable and no longer psychologically useful. When that happens, it'll be gone" "I am afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning " "Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing "