Psychological Quotes - Page 3

I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.

Much of today's psychiatric science is based on wish, myth, and politics.

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

Green exercise improves psychological health.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

Psychological type is nothing static - it changes in the course of life.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.

public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense - there's a kind of soul-murder going on.