Psychology Quotes

"In a war of ego, the loser always wins" "Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes" "Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others" "The amount of erotic desire we feel has less to do with models of attractiveness and more to do with how willing we are to take risks." "We are more than hardwired instinct and passion." "Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart." "We hate the things we fear; we fear the things we do not understand" "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" "People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves." "A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts" "The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best" "Good people will do good things and bad people will do bad things, but only religion can make good people do bad things" "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool" "We lie best when we lie to ourselves" "We live between joy and hate."