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Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?
— Rudolf Arnheim
As long as you have a Cell Phone you're never alone
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Society reproduces itself antagonistically.
— Rudolf J. Siebert
If you want kids, choose your girlfriend like your future child has the deciding vote.
— Stefan Molyneux
The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer.
— Paul Bloom
My psychology belongs to everyone.
— Alfred Adler
There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.
— Allan Wesler
Psychology is a subject of life, death, and in-betweens.
— Santosh Kalwar
Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.
— Asa Don Brown
For far too long, the female gender has been plagued with stereotypes, typecasting, as well as, subtle and blatant discrimination.
— Asa Don Brown
When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.
— William Gibson
Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.
— Claire Danes
among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
— Idries Shah
Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.
— Stefan Molyneux
The creature who lives inside my brain suggested I do it," I offered tentatively. "It was very convincing.
— Joss Sheldon
What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.
— Jay Samit
People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.
— Abhijit Naskar
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
— Sharon Salzberg
We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.
— Douglas Adams
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
— Oscar Wilde
The Loguidice Fitness Equation: Eating Right + Knowing How to Workout + Consistency = Success
— Bill Loguidice
The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
— Stefan Molyneux
Goals for the future distract from worry and anger about the past and redirect your focus to the direction you're travelling in.
— Sam Owen
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
— Richard Adams
In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.
— C. G. Jung
Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.
— Bertrand Russell
We forget very easily what gives us pain.
— Graham Greene
Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.
— Allan Lokos
Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full.
— Idries Shah
I think my degrees in Theology and Psychology qualified me for nothing, but probably prepared me for everything.
— Brooke Bida
Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.
— Boris Sidis
My instincts have never lies to me.
— Tiger Woods
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women ... merely adored.
— Oscar Wilde
What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?
— Sam Keen
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.
— Jon Ronson
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
— Sigmund Freud
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
— Wilhelm Wundt
You are the most lucky person in the world, only if you BELIEVE so.
— Nitesh Aggarwaal
I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
— Alexei Sayle
Life is stress by definition.
— Rebecca McNutt
The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
— Abhijit Naskar
Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.
— K. Hari Kumar
Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.
— Daniel J. Siegel
Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. — C. G. Jung
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. — C. G. Jung
There is also an emerging therapy called "Energy Psychology" that connects the
— Veronique Desaulniers
Holistic self-realization is the realization of your heart's desire. Why holistic? Because it involves your entire being.
— Stefan Emunds
The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages.
— Robert Wright
Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.
— Dean Koontz
People don't read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.
— Dermot Davis
Memory is the binding foam of our mental life.
— Abhijit Naskar
When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too...
— Various
If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority.
— Adrian Furnham
In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation's citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch.
— Abhijit Naskar
The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
— Allen Wheelis
When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.
— Idries Shah
Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.
— Idries Shah
Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.
— Jon Ronson
I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves
— Bobby Fischer
Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.
— John E. Sarno
Four minutes of eye contact brings people closer to each other better than everything else.
— Arthur Aron
James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.
— Mike Jay
Through transcendence of duality, we foster greater unity in our lives, which brings about inner peace and the sprouting of unconditional LOVE.
— Alaric Hutchinson
A very important function of intelligence is the ability to premeditate. ~ Aarush Kashyap
— Kirtida Gautam
The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.
— Idries Shah
When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.
— Thomas Gilovich
Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory ...
— Asa Don Brown
I'm afraid you can't create tragedy out of abnormal psychology.
— Andrew Sarris
Change your mind and change your whole life experience.
— C.G. Rousing
I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
— Nhat Hanh
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
— H.G.Wells
[W]hat a person considers the minimal necessities depends as much on his character as it depends on his actual possessions.
— Erich Fromm
Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
— Philip G. Zimbardo
Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.
— James K. Morrow
Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.
— Allan Lokos
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Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali — Idries Shah
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Hazrat Ali — Idries Shah
The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.
— Sigmund Freud
Ambiguity begets participation.
— Daniel J. Levitin
How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?
— Idries Shah
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.
— Aloe Blacc
There is no such thing as a successful defense.
— George S. Patton
Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Neither our psychology nor that of the unbelievers can impart life to them. Unless the Holy Spirit Himself performs the work, all is vain.
— Watchman Nee
Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.
— Mary Pipher
Arguing is a waste of time, because our attitudes need a quantum leap, not our knowledge. Arguing is a sport at best and a bad attitude at worst.
— Stefan Emunds
Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.
— Raheel Farooq
I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well.
— L.A. Paul
Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.
— Nathaniel Branden