Psychology Quotes

“No one is ever the villain of their own story.”

“Emotion is a weakness.”

“We are justified in concluding that the constitutional factor in the formation of character is the strength of the pre-genital instincts.”

“Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment.”

“Bullying is not about conflict. It's about contempt.”

“The hurried child is a stressed child.”

“If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we must also be willing to feel anger, sadness, fear, and guilt.”

“I believe that the compulsions of the writer are related to the compulsions of the criminal.”

“Instead of taking the single group member as the unit, the group as a whole may be taken as the central problem for the psychologist.”

“I think the thing that we’re all looking for is connection.”

“The anal character is distinguished by a special combination of three qualities: orderliness, parsimony, and obstinacy.”

“Man's striving for order, of which art is but one manifestation, derives from a similar universal tendency throughout the organic world; it is a means of rendering understandable the environment and the self.”

“The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night.”

“From a psychoanalytic point of view, fairy tales are the dreams of the culture.”

“Everybody is looking for a scapegoat.”

“There is nothing so practical as a good theory.”

“Behavior is a function of the person and his environment.”

“Fame after Wham! was a scary thing. I was frightened by it.”

“The imagination is the faculty of illusion.”

“Responsibility is to own your own responses.”