Psychological Quotes

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

— Bob Hope

“The suit was not clothing. It was hunger with seams.”

— Valon G

“So much of what people believe makes no sense, Wylie.”

— Kimberly McCreight

We are all born; some remain so.

— Samuel Beckett

for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

— Helene Deutsch

“Psychological abuse is not a one-and-done type of harm.”

— Shannon Thomas

“Routine had become rhythm. Rhythm had become identity.”

— D.L. Maddox

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

— Jim Hodges

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

— Todd G. Buchholz

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Belief, once seeded, could bend the world more surely than force.”

— Jasmine K.Y. Loo

“Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.”

— Carla H Krueger

Far from being a psychological trait, the spirit of revenge is the principle on which our whole psychology depends.

— Gilles Deleuze

We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare is a struggle for winning people's minds.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.

— George Santayana

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

— Allan Bloom

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon,…

— William James

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and…

— Guillaume Canet

This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to…

— Kenny Loggins

Runners in the western world have a tendency to create psychological barriers for themselves, but Morceli runs at will, with no inhibitions.

— Eamonn Coghlan

The way I dig in to push myself through mountain climbs is totally psychological. I'm not designed to do that stuff. It's…

— Mark Cavendish

It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally…

— Charles Dickens

Physically, it completely changed me. I found strength that I never thought I had. And mentally, I mean, it's taught me just…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of…

— Steven Pressfield

Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all…

— Henri Nouwen

It's best to not confuse optimism with hope. Optimism is a psychological attitude toward life. Hope goes further. It is an anchor…

— Pope Francis

When a player keeps a calm demeanor on the court, it's easier for his ability to shine. The best response to an…

— Walt Frazier

My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained…

— Richard Bentall

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than…

— Albert Einstein

I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany…

— Lydia Davis

It's always been strange to me that someone can say they're a vampire fan. I'm not a non-fan, but it's such an…

— Robert Pattinson

the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment…

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood…

— Michael Shermer

Morality is essentially a suite of psychological mechanisms that enable us to cooperate. But, biologically at least, we only evolved to cooperate…

— Joshua Greene

The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more…

— E. Fuller Torrey

For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again…

— Robin Winks

First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical…

— Malcolm X

Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to…

— Jay Winik

The frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public affairs…

— Michael Hastings