Psychology Behaviour Quotes

#1. Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.

Adelyn Birch

#2. All human behaviour, language, thoughts, feelings, actions, and consciousness emerge from this massively interconnected network of neurons. Each neuron is pretty dumb; it either fires in a certain situation or it doesn't, but out of this mass dumbness comes great cleverness.

Trevor Harley

#3. Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

Idries Shah

#4. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
A fool:
A man trying to be honest with the dishonest.

Idries Shah

#5. A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

Thomas Nagel

#6. Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Bribe
Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Idries Shah

#7. People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.

Derek Thompson

#8. True maturity is in attitude and a true attitude is maturity.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#9. Our thoughts shape how we behave.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#10. When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. Isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:

Tim Harford

#12. among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

Idries Shah

#13. I think it was Lessing who once said, 'There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose'. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behaviour.

Viktor E. Frankl

#14. 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

#15. People who understand human behavior and personality tend to find flaws in every next person they meet, analyze their actions and develop bit sociopath nature.

Himmilicious

#16. We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

Erich Fromm

#17. A fresh approach is needed - an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour

Jeremy Griffith

#18. ...even though we do not have the wisdom to enumerate the reasons for the behaviour of another person, we can grant that every individual does have his private world of meaning, conceived out of the integrity and dignity of his personality.

Virginia M. Axline

#19. It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.

Gabor Mate

#20. The processing of universals is the job of the unconscious. If we feed it the opposite it breaks; when it breaks we break and the people around us break.

Stefan Molyneux

#21. Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

Stefan Molyneux

#22. In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.

Idries Shah

#23. Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

Maxwell Maltz

#24. If it's public, it's not bonding.

Will Advise

#25. 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