Quotes about Psychology

Sometimes people behave in certain ways to provoke us to react in certain ways. If we stop reacting in these certain ways, we take all the fun out of it for them.

Males raised and nurtured on mama's 'love' resent the need that they have for women.

Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self- dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face. As Jerry Seinfeld observed of his twenty years of dating: That's a lot of acting fascinated.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

It is possible to love more than we know. A simple person in good faith may have a greater love of God than a theologian and, as a result, a keener understanding of the ways of God with the heart than psychologists have.

Freudanism interprets man in terms of sex; Christianity interprets sex in terms of man.

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder the military hasn't got on to this.