Psychology Quotes

Psychology Quotes

-By Timothy Lyons

Here are some major influences on psychology and their Psychology Quotes.

1.Nothing is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being-

-Margaret Floy Washburn 

2. Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories have these characteristics too.-

-Elizabeth Loftus 

3. No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.-

-Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success 

4. Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.-

-Karen Horney 

5. Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.-

-Steven Pinker 

6. The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.-

-Philip Zimbardo 

7. One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn’t be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy – just not in the same moment that you’re sad.-

-Martin Seligman 

8. We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.-

-Wilhelm Wundt 

9. The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.-

-Carl Rogers 

Here are some more Psychology Quotes

10. A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.-

-B. F. Skinner 

11. Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.-

-Abraham Maslow 

12. People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.-

-Albert Bandura 

13. I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck – both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.-

-Howard Gardner 

14. In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.-

-Erik Erikson 

15. No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started… It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.-

-John B. Watson

16. We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness – better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.-

-Alison Gopnik 

17. “Happiness is living in accord with your values and in a way that is more accepting of your history as it echoes into the present.”-

-Steven Hayes 

18. Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.-

-Marsha M. Linehan 

19. Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.-

-Aaron T. Beck 

20. Perfection’ is man’s ultimate illusion. It simply doesn’t exist in the universe…. If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.-

-David D. Burns