Psychology Quotes

"Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters" "Every operation of the mind is accompanied with a corresponding modification of the brain" "The mind acts upon the body, and the body upon the mind, by laws unknown to us" "We accept the love we think we deserve" "One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end" "You can only be afraid of what you think you know" "The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear" "Feelings are often deceiving." "To understand oneself is the greatest challenge." "In a war of ego, the loser always wins" "Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes" "Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others" "The amount of erotic desire we feel has less to do with models of attractiveness and more to do with how willing we are to take risks." "We are more than hardwired instinct and passion." "Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart." "We hate the things we fear; we fear the things we do not understand" "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" "People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves." "A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts" "The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best"