Best Psychology Quotes

#1. I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself - or other people - in a different way.

Natalie Portman

#2. Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

Kathryn Schulz

#3. Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Steven Pinker

#4. I never personalize anything because I think that can be dangerous. For me, the best way is - this may sound pretentious - but it's to breathe the character and get into the psychology of it.

Imogen Poots

#5. Where tradition tells us that people are best kept under control and denied freedom of expression and action, humanistic psychology argues for liberation, more open decision-making and a sharing of power and control.

Keith Tudor

#6. Just get him started on what he thinks is best for souls. He's all about making everyone feel right at home. Oh gods! He reads these stupid psychology books and just spouts off random psycho-babble. It's awful! - Cassandra

Kaitlin Bevis

#7. Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

David Richo

#8. The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you'll find.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. The most effective way of making people accept the validity of the values they are to serve is to persuade them that they are really the same as those which they, or at least the best among them, have always held, but which were not properly understood or recognised before.

Friedrich Hayek

#11. The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#12. The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

Wilhelm Wundt

#13. Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.

Daniel Mackler

#14. Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.

Marvin Minsky

#15. The best wrestlers, whether it's a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business.

Hulk Hogan

#16. A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

B.F. Skinner

#17. Women always cried. It was their last, best weapon. It made boyfriends apologize and husbands fold them in their arms. It made Daddy spend the extra money on the prom dress.

Barry Lyga

#18. It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

Abraham H. Maslow

#19. The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology."

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#20. The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

James Hollis

#21. Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know, and we are all here to learn and grow.

Alaric Hutchinson

#22. In life, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have on hand.

Agnes Kamara-umunna

#23. The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Idries Shah

#24. The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Paul Valery

#25. Be YOU. There is nothing sexier than someone who is confident enough to be themselves, quirks and all. It is often your unique nature that separates you from the crowd in the best way possible for your romantic match to notice you.

Alaric Hutchinson

#26. One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

Stefan Molyneux

#27. You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.

Lauren Burns

#28. Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked.

Thomm Quackenbush

#29. The best way to deal with somebody is to deal with yourself.

Terry Cole-Whittaker

#30. As for the boys ... vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matter what.

Martha Stout

#31. Being good or being evil is not something that is inherent in our nature over which we have no control, rather we define ourselves by the choices we make, moment by moment, situation by situation. All it takes is an act of will to be the best that we can be.

Laurence Overmire

#32. A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.

Osunsakin Adewale

#33. My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

Earl Weaver

#34. Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

China Mieville

#35. One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

Allan Lokos

#36. This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be the best you can be.

Faye Snyder

#37. In reality, though, most of the time we don't choose the best option - we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing.

Steve Krug

#38. So inveterate is their appetite for Heaven that our best method, at this stage, of attaching them to earth is to make them believe that earth can be turned into Heaven at some future date by politics or eugenics or 'science' or psychology, or what not. Real

C.S. Lewis

#39. We must love those close to us, all the time, every day. Moments only happen once. Make them matter.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

#40. The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.

Roy F. Baumeister

#41. Arguing is a waste of time, because our attitudes need a quantum leap, not our knowledge. Arguing is a sport at best and a bad attitude at worst.

Stefan Emunds

#42. What then am I? In the end, all we have is simply what we find, and what we can usefully say to each other about what we find is all that needs to be said. And perhaps, in the end, it's best just to sit quietly and let go of that thought too.

Murray Shanahan

#43. The best doctors are the ones that can get inside your head and fix something without making a hole.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#44. Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Kettering

#45. So I do, of course, reject much that is central not only to the psychology of Descartes and Kant, but to their epistemology as well. No doubt, the best available theories of today will look primitive in comparison with what we are in a position to understand hundreds of years from now.

Hilary Kornblith

#46. We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have all been flown for religious ideals.

William James

#47. Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

Bruce D. Perry

#48. The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

Gordon W. Allport

#49. An open mind, is the best weapon, in the fight between light and darkness

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

#50. It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.

Luther E. Vann

#51. The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

Martin Seligman