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Psychology Quotes
"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
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"There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography."
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"On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question."
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"A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything."
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"If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive."
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"The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself."
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"There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity."
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"All problems are illusions of the mind."
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"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."
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"Pride is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary."
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"I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk."
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"Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it."
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"People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced."
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"Beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone."
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"I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian."
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"I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me."
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"We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are, it may be an indication of how wicked we really are."
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"Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught."
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"Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine."
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"And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?"
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"You think that because I am unwanted, because I am neglected and-and discarded-" My voice inches higher with every word, the unrestrained emotions suddenly screaming through my lungs. "You think I don't have a heart? You think I don't feel? You think that because I can inflict pain, that I should? You're just like everyone else. You think I'm a monster just like everyone else. You don't understand me at all."
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"Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers."
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"There was a closet somewhere inside me. Every day I went near that just to open the door and see all the masks of my face that I hid there.To select one which isn't me but still would look like me, which would hide me from the world in a better way. Day after day I stored so many masks in that closet that one day I searched for my real face in it and it wasn't there. I never understood whether I lost it or I forgot how it looked like, the more I searched the most lost I felt."
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"Sometimes my age is inappropriate for my behavior."
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"Anger is the immune system of the soul."
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"In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend."
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"But memory is like plaster: peel it back and you just might find a completely different picture."
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"If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me."
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"Until now psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification while studying subjects, but believe me I'm coining a new term: VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION, which will become a new form of craving in near future. Watch On!"
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"People, who do so little for you, always try to ruin your life."
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"People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger."
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"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting."
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"If you hide your problems and never let yourself get help from yourself and others, those problems will always be lurking inside of you beneath the surface."
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"Comparison is the thief of joy."
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"Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us."
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"Anxiety does not make a future situation turn out better if anything it stops you from reaching your highest potential. Relax and live in the present, not the future."
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"People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I."
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"Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated."
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"I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting."
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"That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast."
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"Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology."
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"You're human. You can't be a "motivational speaker every damn day of your life. It's okay to have dark days. Allow yourself to go there, then come back up with a gusto, like you always do. You're an angel, but you're also human. Don't beat yourself up for being authentic."
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"If little else, the brain is an educational toy.The problem with possessing such an engaging toy is that other people want to play with it, too. Sometime they'd rather play with yours than theirs. Or they object if you play with yours in a different manner from the way they play with theirs. The result is, a few games out of a toy department of possibilities are universally and endlessly repeated. If you don't play some people's game, they say that you have "lost your marbles," not recognizing that, while Chinese checkers is indeed a fine pastime, a person may also play dominoes, chess, strip poker, tiddlywinks, drop-the-soap or Russian roulette with his brain."
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"I would say about 80 to 90 percent of people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunction and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe your mind and you will know this to be true. It causes a serious leakage of vital energy."
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"If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected."
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"In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different."
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"But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things."
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"Variability has potential to create confusion."
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