Psychology Quotes

"We are closest to people when we promise them something that can never be delivered" "The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness" "We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation" "Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy." "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind" "In time we hate that which we often fear" "Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions." "Everyone is a potential murderer—in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill—though not the will to kill." "The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions" "Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others" "I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness" "An illusion shared by everyone becomes a reality" "We consume, but we are not satisfied" "Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies"