Psychology Quotes

"It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the skills we think we have " "It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves" "Too much of our lives takes place in the head, in memory or imagination, in speculation, in projection, in abstraction." "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls" "I love reading people. I really enjoy watching people’s interactions and learning about them." "If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person " "I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go." "One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen." "It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea." "I feel like, when people are laughing, they're divorcing themselves from the things that make them human" "The goal of psychoanalysis is to turn neurotic misery into ordinary human unhappiness." "No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." "There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses." "We must act out passion before we can feel it." "One of the major reasons why a flow experience involves such deep enjoyment is that it is self-contained" "Competition is an easy way to experience flow, but it is a cheap trick " "Inner conflict is a result of an unsolved encounter between conflicting ideas, impulses, or motives" "Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary" "Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble" "The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant"