Top 100 Human Psychology Quotes
#1. Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.
Margaret Atwood
#2. Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
Albert Camus
#3. Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.
Carl Jung
#4. Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#5. Such labor follows in the steps of Freud, who has become the Ptolemy of psychology, for now, with him, anyone can explain human phenomena, raising epicycles upon epicycles ...
Stanislaw Lem
#6. [T}he sexual act without love never bridges the gap between two human beings, except momentarily.
Erich Fromm
#7. Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.
Robert Galbraith
#8. Prolonged stress causes the human body to make adaptations so it can continue to serve you at a functional level. The more stress, the more adaptations.
Janet Gallagher Nestor
#9. All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility
that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
Nathaniel Branden
#10. Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
Wilhelm Reich
#11. When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves.
Claire Chilton
#12. Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#13. In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.
Abhijit Naskar
#14. The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.
Cynthia Heimel
#15. All human behavior has a reason. All behavior is solving a problem.
Michael Crichton
#16. The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.
Niall Ferguson
#17. The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
Abhijit Naskar
#18. Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
Philip G. Zimbardo
#19. One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.
Margaret Mead
#20. When you're in your early 20s, a lot of characters can be one or two dimensional. You want a role to substantiate the drama, as opposed to actually analyzing the psychology of a human being. That's what drew me to acting, particularly the contradictions in people.
Tom Hughes
#21. Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone ... The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
Betty Friedan
#22. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
Idries Shah
#23. Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#24. The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
Edward Thorndike
#25. A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens
#26. What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe
Thomas Gilovich
#27. Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.
Richard Dawkins
#28. Fear, anxiety, stress and panic, all these are basic evolutionary expression of the human brain. They are part of the normal human condition.
Abhijit Naskar
#29. Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.
Abhijit Naskar
#30. But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.
Robert Greene
#31. 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
#32. Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring
Claude C. Hopkins
#33. In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.
Thomas Szasz
#34. For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?
Thomas Gilovich
#35. There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.
Kenan Malik
#37. People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.
Abhijit Naskar
#38. Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people.
Abhijit Naskar
#39. To transcend nature, to be alienated from nature and from another human being, finds man naked, ashamed. He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid.
Erich Fromm
#40. We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments.
Every human act - no matter how large or how small - is a direct expression of
a man's personality, and bears the inevitable impress of his nature.
S. S. Van Dine
#41. Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.
Peter Singer
#42. Celibacy is nothing if not abnormal. The human body and brain are not made for such programming. Whatever normal is, it does not include celibacy.
Darrel Ray
#43. Nowists are more likely to experience joy because they embrace the uncertainty of existence. They are switched on by the uncertain stuff of human life and come alive when faced with life at its most uncontrollable.
Max McKeown
#44. Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#45. For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.
Warren Farrell
#46. It's one of the maddening perversities of human psychology that we only notice we're alive when we're reminded we're going to die,
Tim Kreider
#47. Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children ... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.
Keith Ablow
#48. The thing that I really like is psychology. I love the human mind. I love the choices you make based on your experiences and instincts and your development based on such experiences and so I guess that's why I love acting so much.
Wilmer Valderrama
#49. It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#50. Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.
Abhijit Naskar
#51. Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
Wilhelm Wundt
#52. We tend to suppress our anger against each other which ultimately leads to big quarrels some day. If two people have been naturally expressing their differences of opinion or having small arguments on regular basis, they will never have resentment or enmity of a lifetime.
Deep Trivedi
#53. Life is ephemeral; each moment passes quickly, a blur of color on a fast moving subway car. There and gone and all we are left with is the imprint of what once was.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#54. For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.
Asa Don Brown
#55. A Woman who let out a Sigh Outside a Mansion, should Never ask her Husband Why He Works Late
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#57. The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
Jim Butcher
#58. What the new science of anthrozoology reveals is that our attitudes, behaviors, and relationships with the animals in our lives- the ones we love, the ones we hate, and the ones we eat- are, likewise, more complicated than we thought.
Hal Herzog
#59. People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence
Thomas Gilovich
#60. Human emotions have deep evolutionary roots, a fact that may explain their complexity and provide tools for clinical practice.
The Nature of Emotions (2001)
Robert Plutchik
#61. Is that the ultimate need? To secure some agent to act as a salve, a bandage, a cover-up, concealer over the black eye, as opposed to facing the issue head on. Nobody wants to address the fist. We'd all much rather take something for the pain and make it all go away.
Katandra Jackson Nunnally
#62. Human nature, though being the product of historical evolution, has certain inherent mechanisms and laws, to discover which is the task of psychology.
Erich Fromm
#63. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
Alfred North Whitehead
#64. After the war Avi, by then twenty-two years old, finally decided what he would study: psychology. Had you asked him just then why he picked psychology, "I would say I want to understand the human soul. Not the mind. The soul.
Michael Lewis
#65. A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.
Alice Miller
#66. Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.
Stacy London
#67. Philosophy and Psychology
The latter is study of researched human brain and behavior
The former is the behavior after studying the human brain.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#68. A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE
Tell me what to do; but it must be what I want you to tell me.
Idries Shah
#69. The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.
Abhijit Naskar
#70. I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
Stephen R. Covey
#71. I have heard that we are spirits having a human experience. Perhaps those of us who have no conscience are dark spirits having a human experience.
P.A. Speers
#72. Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.
Abhijit Naskar
#73. Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.
Henry Iba
#74. Is this World a reality or just a Human perceptions?
Bash
#75. Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality
Jordan Petersen
#76. As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they know only their own side of the question.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#77. The more you say the more people know about you, make it a point that you say the most sense as little as possible
Morena Baloyi
#78. I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues.
Greg Iles
#79. Mere knowledge of human psychology would in itself infallibly make us despondent if we were not cheered and kept alert by the satisfaction of expressing it.
Thomas Mann
#81. Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.
Crystal Reed
#83. Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.
Celia Green
#84. In today's society, the animals known as Homo sapiens have become conditioned to elicit the same kind of fearful response whenever the bell of Islam is rung.
Abhijit Naskar
#85. It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
Sigmund Freud
#86. Human reflection is chronically overrated, though, and we now suspect that our own reaction to food poisoning is in fact similar to that of rats. Garcia's findings forced comparative psychology to admit that evolution pushes cognition around, adapting it to the organism's needs.
Frans De Waal
#87. I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating.
Courtney Gains
#88. We are still living in a wonderful new world where man thinks himself astonishingly new and "modern." This is unmistakable proof of the youthfulness of human consciousness, which has not yet grown aware of its historical antecedents.
C. G. Jung
#89. Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.
Philip G. Zimbardo
#90. If you know a little bit the psychology of human beings, you have to understand that if you say something you should not do, then everybody wants to do it.
Marjane Satrapi
#91. There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.
Mignon McLaughlin
#93. Neither physical science nor psychology can ever 'explain' human consciousness. To me then, human consciousness lies outside science, and it is here that I seek the relationship between God and man.
Nevill Francis Mott
#94. Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
Stefan Molyneux
#95. The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. Correct teaching brings out human excellence.
Idries Shah
#97. It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false.
Leo Tolstoy
#98. Pop leadership abuts pop psychology, and is very destructive. In no other serious domain of human endeavor (surgery, playing the violin) is the subject distilled down to nice-sounding aphorisms that mean nothing.
Paul Gibbons
#99. If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.
Claire Danes
#100. The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.
Stefan Molyneux
