Psychological Subjects Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

484 Psychological Subjects Quotes
“...ideas have a tendency to live lives of their own, and having become a part of tradition, they are very difficult to root out. When summarized in a few neat words or phrases, these gems of wisdom become substitutes for thought, and gradually take on much of the status of revealed truth. Occasionally, some iconoclast sees fit to challenge one of them, and a brief flurry ensues, after which things go on about as before. It is easy to think of plenty of ideas that are passing, if they have not already passed, beyond the stage of effective discussion.”
Richard V. Clemence Quotes
“The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”
Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes
“The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Henry Hazlitt Quotes
“Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.”
James Fenimore Cooper Quotes
“A kiss to or from a woman we love is a far too delicate pledge of affection to bear the gaze of strangers.”
Christopher Nyrop Quotes
“Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.”
Richard Francis Burton Quotes
“We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free.”
Roger J. Williams Quotes
“If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.”
Richard Mitchell Quotes
“Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.”
Anthony Burgess Quotes
“The mind cannot foresee its own advance.”
F.a. Hayek Quotes
“There is no other way to judge the work of a mind except through its words.”
Richard Mitchell Quotes
“Collective judgement of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgement despite collective disapproval.”
W.a. Lewis Quotes
“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”
B.h. Liddell Hart Quotes
“Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.”
Theodor Reik Quotes
“A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.”
Mencius Quotes
“It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.”
Robert Lindner Quotes
“The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.”
George Wald Quotes
“Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.”
Lord Halifax Quotes
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
Charles Mackay Quotes
“Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.”
Ludwig von Mises Quotes
“Who speaks reason to his fellow man bestows it upon them.”
Richard Mitchell Quotes
“Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not that others should search out anything, and would have us believe like rustics and ask no reason...But we ask in all things a reason must be sought.”
William Of Conches Quotes
“He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.”
William Drummond Quotes
“Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society than by his own initiative. Without realizing it, he makes society rather than himself the agent of change. The power he finds in his victimization may lead him to collective action against society, but it also encourages passivity within the sphere of his personal life.”
Shelby Steele Quotes
“A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and thirst" after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.”
C. D. Broad Quotes
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