Best Psychological Quotations
784 Psychological quotes by 594 unique authors
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In my opinion, advocating, allowing and practicing psychiatric and psychoanalytic dogmas within the church is every bit as pagan and heretical (and therefore perilous) as…
— Jay E. Adams
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The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.
— Richard Winters
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I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am appaulled by the…
— George H. Smith
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Homosexuality is a psychological and psychiatric disorder, there is no question about it. It is a purple menace that is threatening the proper design of…
— Unknown Author
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This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if you dare to…
— Scott Lively
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I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective,…
— Ivan Pavlov
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The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It…
— George H. Smith
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Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of…
— Alain de Botton
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In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and…
— William C. Menninger
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The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this. As…
— H. Bentley Glass
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I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of the universe; and…
— Charles Lane Poor
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a woman who struggles to recover from a brutal attack and sets out on a dark, psychological and physical journey for revenge and justice.
— Jodie Foster
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Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His…
— Carl Jung
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Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something…
— Mooji
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And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors…
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this…
— Unknown Author
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Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question, criticise and exercise…
— Unknown Author
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Never did I want to call the first time-out during a game. Never. I wanted UCLA to come out and run our opponents so hard…
— John Wooden
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Buddhism teaches us that happiness does not come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological. Happiness comes from letting go. In Buddhism,…
— Mark Epstein
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The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Synchronistic events offer us perceptions that may be useful in our psychological and spiritual growth and may reveal to us, through intuitive knowledge, that our…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our…
— Mike Hulme
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Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the…
— Jacques Ellul
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The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work closely together, share…
— Unknown Author
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing,…
— Harold Lasswell
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