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quotes by topic psychology

" But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of the jury, to show that you can prove anything by it. It all depends on who makes use of it. Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously. I am speaking of the abuse of psychology, gentlemen. "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

psychology

" Never for one minute have I taken you for reality . . . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom . . . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself . . . of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them. "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

psychology

" Try and set yourself the task not to think of a white bear, and the cursed thing comes to mind every minute. "

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

psychology

" Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves. "

psychology

" I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists. "

Vladimir Nabokov

Enjoyment , psychology

" ...they would say 'he said this, he did that', but they would never say 'she said this, she did that'. So I would say, they are sick, and I am well. Pardon me. "

Charles Bukowski

psychology

" But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things. "

Agatha Christie

psychology

" I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. "

Agatha Christie

psychology

" Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. "

Bertrand Russell

psychology

" A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. "

Charles Dickens

Communication , psychology

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