Psychology Quote by John Verdon

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Perhaps we can recognize our way out of patterns rather than repeating our way out of them.”

— Patti Digh

“a mind that is too full of what it thinks it knows can’t take in new information.”

— Sarajoy Marsh

“everybody knows too much about everything to know anything. And somehow that turns into everyone thinking everything is probably the opposite of what it…

— James W. Blinn

“Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd…

— Jean-Philippe Toussaint

“The stimulus to thought lies in the detail provided.”

— Dennis Howitt

“The images whittled away at him like a sharp knife, steady and unrelenting. There were times he thought it would have been far better…

— Haruki Murakami

“He of all people knew how negative thinking could sabotage things.”

— Tracy March

“... anecdotes can easily become interpretations, and the facts expand in minds when they are not opposed by knowledge.”

— Bernd Heinrich

“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He learned that some things that seemed to make little sense were senseless only from his point of view, not necessarily from someone else's…

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

“He had forgotten how convincing the world could look, how sure of itself: its outlines and edges; it's gradations, recessions, protrusions; it's startling and…

— Gregory Maguire