Psychology Quotes

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization ~Sigmund Freud

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water ~ Sigmund Freud

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve”

 Erich Fromm (German born American social Philosopher and Psychoanalyst, 1900-1980)

“Sensation tells us a thing is.

Thinking tells us what it is this thing is.

Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”

Carl Gustav Jung (Swiss psychiatrist, Psychologist and Founder of the Analytic Psychology, 1875-1961)

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. ~Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin: Psychology, 1973

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. ~Joey Adams

Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind. ~Moses R. Kaufman

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ~Mason Cooley

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology. ~D.H. Lawrence

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves. ~Gabrielle Roth