Psychology Quotes

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Learned helplessness is the giving up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Hope is the enduring belief in the attainability of fervent wishes.

I sometimes think that the only function of the brain is to keep the body from being too stupid.

Neurons that fire together wire together.

People are producers of their life circumstances, not just products of them.

The way you think largely determines how you feel and behave.

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

The whole is other than the sum of its parts.

The chimpanzee, like man, is capable of insight.

The whole is other than the sum of its parts.

The behaviorist, in his efforts to get a unitary scheme of animal response, recognizes no dividing line between man and brute.

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives, that would not be enough. Be passionate in your work and in your search.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.