Psychology Quotes

"Sanity is not statistical." "To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal." "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." "It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional whatever the motivation." "Sometimes we see the world as we are, not as it is" "Life is an ongoing psychoanalysis. You uncover more and more of yourself as you go along." "The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane " "The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong" "Beware the ire of the calm man" "Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children " "If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick " "How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child" "The child has a different relation to his environment from ours. The child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul." "I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction" "You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time" "There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked." "To be free, you had not only to escape from a rope or a chain. You had to escape from a way of thinking because freedom was not about taking off your chains." "To be really positive and to be cruel at the same time is a terrible thing, luckily, it is impossible to do both. " "What is love? Love is the opposite of fear." "The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice."