Quotes about Psychology
we too easily assume that we are our real selves, and that our choices are really the ones we want to make when, in fact, our acts of free choice are (though morally imputable, no doubt) largely dictated by psychological compulsions, flowing from our inordinate ideas of our own importance.
— Thomas Merton
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....
— Carl Jung
We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
— Carl Jung
In fact it seems to me as if that alienation which so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself.
— Carl Jung
Practical experience and accurate observation show that one cannot influence one's own dreams. There are people, it is true, who assert that they can influence them. But if you look into their dream material, you find that they do only what I do with my disobedient dog: I order him to do those things I notice he wants to do anyhow, so that I can preserve my illusion of authority.
— Carl Jung
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.
— Carl Jung
A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Law of reversed effect, which states that whenever there is a conflict between imagination and willpower, the imagination wins.
— Napoleon Hill
how to sell yourself by using the same strategies and psychology that master salespeople use in selling goods and services.
— Napoleon Hill
People are influenced in their actions, not by reason so much as by feelings.
— Napoleon Hill
A master salesperson is a strategist at mind manipulation.
— Napoleon Hill
People are influenced in their actions, not by reason so much as by feelings. The creative faculty of the mind is set
— Napoleon Hill