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Psychology

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at other; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The chief difficulty for those who begin the study of scientific psychology is that all men indulge in popular psychology.

When you focus not on what you want, but on what you have, you end up getting more of what you want anyway.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

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

But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

A man can be himself alone so long as he is alone if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.

A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.