To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

We’re hardwired for connection. There’s no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we’re trying to hot-wire it.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

It’s in the best interest of the radical left types – best psychological and strategic interest – to refuse to admit to the possibility that reasonable people can object to their ideological staff. Because if reasonable people objected, that would imply that their ideological stance is not reasonable.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius – or French.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

When we understand string theory, we will know how the universe began. It won’t have much effect on how we live, but it is important to understand where we come from and what we can expect to find as we explore.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.