Famous and Funny Psychology Quotes
– “Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.” – Douglas Busch
– “Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.” – Samuel Alexander
– “Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.” – G.K. Chesterton
– “Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.” – James M. Baldwin
– “A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” – Paul Dudley White
– “The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.” – Sigmund Freud
– “A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.” – Joey Adams
– “There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.” – C.G. Jung
– “There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” – Ben Williams
– “Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.” – Mason Cooley
– “A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they’re complex.” – S.N. Behrman
– “Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.” – Hermann Ebbinghaus
– “A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.” – Jerome Lawrence
– “The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you’ll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.” – Mignon McLaughlin
– “The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.” – Paul Valéry
– “Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected the American society within the last fifty years.” – Thomas S. Szasz
– “Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of ‘progress,’ but only by viewing history as a neurosis.” – Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death