Psychology Quotes – Insights and Reflections

A collection of psychology quotes offering perspectives and insights on human behavior and thought processes.

This collection of psychology quotes presents profound insights and reflections on human behavior, cognition, and experience. The quotes cover fundamental concepts, theories, and observations from psychology. They invite contemplation on the nature of the mind and the interaction between individuals and their environment. This selection is intended for those interested in human psychology and the philosophical aspects underlying it.

Erich Fromm quote on thinking, happiness, and society

"Well now, I believe we are much less stupid than it seems. We are trained not to think. Formulas are drilled into us, which we parrot.

But I believe that if the desire for true happiness, for true knowledge were to fully awaken among people in society – what the Enlightenment called with Kant's words: Sapere aude! Dare to know! – and not to consume canned wisdom that someone else has cooked and served, and then even experienced oneself as if I had thought such a thing...

I believe that tremendous change could be achieved.

People are not that stupid at all. But it is dangerous not to be stupid. Because if you are not stupid, you contradict, criticize, express unpopular opinions. And for safety reasons, it is better to appear stupid."

Erich Fromm

"The best lies are always at least partially true."

Laurell Kaye Hamilton

"A healthy outside starts from the inside."

Robert Michael Urich

"Totalitarian ideology is able to blackmail man through his inner cowardice. It threatens him into surrendering his innermost convictions in exchange for glamour and acceptance..."

Joost A.M. Meerloo

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

Mark Twain

"If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway."

Edward Bernays

"We govern what the public think about."

Edward Bernays

"A third of the people in this country are weak in spirit. One in seven citizens is stupid or demented or an alcoholic. About half of the country's population has below-average intellect. These people, and it is half of the nation, escape the diversity and ambiguity of the world, and what is left of this world in their eyes can be divided into quite simple, mostly anti-polar elements. It’s sometimes called black and white thinking."

Prof. Cyril Höschl

"It's funny how everyone that lies gets popular and everyone that tells the truth is a fricking psycho."

Unbekannt

"It's funny how everyone that lies gets popular and everyone that tells the truth is a fricking psycho."

Unbekannt

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Audrey Hepburn

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."

Zig Ziglar

"The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat."

Napoleon Hill

"Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing."

Philip K. Dick

Quote about mind control and media by Jason Christoff

"Mind control isn't hard to understand. If you do what the TV says, the TV is controlling your mind and you're not. 2 billion people just pushed an experimental medicine under their skin, which was never healthy, simply because the TV told them to. That's mind control."

Unbekannt

"Most people don’t see their beliefs. Instead their beliefs tell them what to see. That’s the simple difference between clarity and confusion."

Matt Kahn

"The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective."

Aldous Huxley

"No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders."

Edward L. Bernays