Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race..

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd gener….

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress..

I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are ….

The other thing [my psychology professor] said to me was that I was always very mindful of the person who was away from the group, that I was always ….

He has the players too happy..

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology..

In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act toward us, if we were in his circumstances a….

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off.

For to a folysshe demaunde behoueth a folysshe ansuere..

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely..

No other book has been so chopped, knifed, sifted, scrutinized, and vilified. What book on philosophy or religion or psychology or belles lettres of ….

I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charis….

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe..

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will..

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an array….

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things..

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems..

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very li….

Children?have no use for psychology..

Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensati….