Psychology helps us unravel the mysteries of human behaviour, emotions, and thought processes. From ancient philosophers to modern scientists, great minds have captured powerful truths about how we think, feel, and relate to others.
- “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” – William James
- “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.” – Carl Jung
- “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch
- “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – Carl Jung
- “The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.” – Sigmund Freud
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” – Epictetus
- “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” – Carl Rogers
- “Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” – F. M. Alexander
- “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.” – Matt Haig
- “The only thing more exhausting than having a mental illness is pretending like you don’t.” – Unknown
- “Feelings are much like waves; we can’t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.” – Jonatan Mårtensson
- “Tears are words that need to be written.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.” – C.S. Lewis
- “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier
- “Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay
- “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” – Dan Millman
- “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” – John Green
- “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi
- “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “Cognition is the process of knowing — the awareness and judgment by which we understand our world.” – Jean Piaget
- “The brain is wider than the sky.” – Emily Dickinson
- “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” – Sigmund Freud
- “Don’t believe everything you think.” – Unknown
- “We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.” – Harville Hendrix
- “The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.” – Baruch Spinoza
- “Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.” – Alfred Adler
- “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” – Mother Teresa
- “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
- “Psychology helps us to understand not just what people do, but why they do it — and that’s where compassion begins.” – Anonymous
These quotes tap into the rich world of psychology where thought, feeling, and behaviour converge.
