Top 100 Mind Psychology Quotes
#1. Even philosophers who did not mind psychology, claimed the brain was irrelevant because it was the hardware, and we only need to know about the software.
Patricia Churchland
#3. To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.
Andre Braugher
#4. Evil is like a pathogen that enters a system, be it an individual, nation-state, or world-system, and exploits that system, knocking it off balance.
Paul Levy
#5. 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
#6. The more we explore, understand, and even come to appreciate our own self-destructive mental attitudes, the more control we gain over our minds.
Karuna Cayton
#7. It may seem demeaning to the vanity of some individuals, but like all elements of the mind, God and all its correlated sensations of divinity are the majestic creations of neurobiology.
Abhijit Naskar
#8. My mind is so clever, but it does me no favors.
Anonymous
#9. Spirituality is to Religion, what Love is to Marriage. Spirituality is an emotional state of the mind, just like Love, while Religion on the other hand, is a social construct, quite like Marriage.
Abhijit Naskar
#11. Patience is the food of understanding.
Idries Shah
#12. We are all in different places in our healing process. Do not become invested in someone who is not yet where you are to understand you. They truly cannot hear you.
Renae A. Sauter
#13. Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism.
Abhijit Naskar
#14. People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.
Idries Shah
#16. If you could observe every thought in your brain the magnitude of it's vastness would drive you insane.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#17. Holistic self-realization is the realization of your heart's desire. Why holistic? Because it involves your entire being.
Stefan Emunds
#18. Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.
Joyce Rachelle
#19. When people think about a placebo such as the royal touch, they usually dismiss it as "just psychology." But, there is nothing "just" about the power of a placebo, and in reality it represents the amazing way our mind controls our body.
Dan Ariely
#20. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Emotionalist:
A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.
Idries Shah
#21. A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkey
Idries Shah
#22. All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.
Paul Levy
#23. Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness that is essential.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#24. Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.
George Trumbull Ladd
#25. Being under stress is like being stranded in a body of water. If you panic, it will cause you to flail around so that the water rushes into your lungs and creates further distress. Yet, by calmly collecting yourself and using controlled breathing you remain afloat with ease.
Alaric Hutchinson
#26. 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
#27. This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died.
Alison Miller
#28. For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.
Joan Halifax
#29. The mind is brought into harmony with the spirit and includes the body, achieving an organic, harmonious unity of all aspects of the person's being, what we might call 'bio-psychosynthesis'. This is true spiritual alchemy
Roberto Assagioli
#30. ...the mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection.
C. G. Jung
#31. Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.
Idries Shah
#32. Be careful not to censor yourself to fit a certain situation or group of people. When we start to censor ourselves we can easily censor ourselves right out of our lives
Renae A. Sauter
#33. I hope that here in America more and more the ideal of the well-trained and vigorous body will be maintained neck by neck with that of the well-trained and vigorous mind as the two coequal halves of the higher education for men and women alike.
William James
#35. The mind loves whatever repeats a pleasurable experience from the past. "I love this" basically means "I love repeating what felt so good before".
Deepak Chopra
#36. An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real
it is a passing will o' the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we get used to it and we give it a home in our hearts
Nigel Hey
#37. Religions began as realization of the self, but ended up being retaliation against each other.
Abhijit Naskar
#38. As I align with the Universal Energy of love I feel fully supported.
Renae A. Sauter
#39. Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.
Idries Shah
#40. Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
Daniel Goldstein
#42. Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
Idries Shah
#44. Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.
Scott O'Reilly
#45. In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
Harold Bloom
#46. I think I really like psychology because my job is all about getting inside another person's mind and thoughts.
Dakota Fanning
#47. Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
Idries Shah
#48. We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul.
Ilyas Kassam
#50. Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting your every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world.
Renae A. Sauter
#52. The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
Abhijit Naskar
#53. Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
Brennan Manning
#54. That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.
Raheel Farooq
#55. What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe
Thomas Gilovich
#56. Whatever I fed to his mind, thinking it was nutrition was, in fact, poison. No matter how much a person likes or craves sugar, he should not be raised on the diet of only sugar ~ Rudransh Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#57. The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
John Desmond Bernal
#58. The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.
Sherry Turkle
#59. You cannot conquer the mind of a man, if you do not know his heart and you cannot win over his heart, if so you do not know his mind.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#60. I always have the time, the room and the energy for more love.
Renae A. Sauter
#61. We train the mind so that we can enjoy greater peace, happiness, wisdom & equanimity.
Allan Lokos
#62. You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.
Idries Shah
#63. The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
Michael Johnson
#65. There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to the psychic pathogen which they carry.
Paul Levy
#66. Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?
Carrie Fisher
#67. Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another's circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.
Sandy Oshiro Rosen
#68. Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.
Paul Levy
#69. 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
#70. In the first years of our lives we learn how to shit, talk, walk, sleep, eat and, most importantly, how to royally piss off our parents.
A.G. Phillips
#71. In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
Charles D. Broad
#73. You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.
Carla H. Krueger
#74. In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.
Idries Shah
#75. Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.
Tsoknyi Rinpoche
#76. There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
William James
#77. People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.
Abhijit Naskar
#78. The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.
Jim Butcher
#79. When you are in alignment with your life purpose; there will be a knowing in your heart that is so strong; that it will let you know your true calling. This will provide you with all the energy you need to fulfill your mission.
Renae A. Sauter
#80. Looking back, retrospectively on the events of that evening, I can see the irony - the shrink whose cat ate his own tail. At the time of the incident, however, humor was not in my emotional repertoire; it was the furthest thing from my mind.
Jacqueline Simon Gunn
#81. Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.
Abhijit Naskar
#82. 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
#83. Trauma is a unique phenomenon all on its own, as if it is an entity in and of itself.
Paul Levy
#84. Understanding the simple fact that morality differs around the world, and even within societies, is the first step toward understanding your righteous mind.
Jonathan Haidt
#85. Have you ever noticed that fear affects your physical mind and body?
Asa Don Brown
#87. Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
James Mark Baldwin
#89. 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
#90. If its almost right its wrong. Pay attention to your hesitation
Renae A. Sauter
#91. There is more to the human mind than its evolutionary heritage.
Kenan Malik
#92. For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?
Thomas Gilovich
#93. By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
Ben Horowitz
#94. The Air Loom, for all its florid craziness, can be seen to have a function and a rationale: as a miraculous, if temporary, fix for a breaking mind, a coping strategy for a life that had become too brutally contradictory to sustain otherwise.
Mike Jay
#95. You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem
Renae A. Sauter
#98. 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
#99. Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.
Paul Levy
