Behavioural Psychology Quotes

“Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.”
― Socrates

“To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!”
― Steven Magee, Health Forensics

“People may chuckle appreciatively at a male turkey that tries to mate with a poor rendition of a female's [suspended] head, but if you then point out that many a human male regularly gets aroused after looking at two-dimensional representations of a nude woman, they don't see the connection.”
― Robert Wright, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

“[...] most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“I believe we can see the future because some part of us responds to the fact that past, present, and the future are one, occurring in a simultaneous time... Quite literally the future is now, and even on this planet we can shape our 'nows' by our actions. That is why it is so important to prepare not only for the rest of our lives but for all our lives to come--for immortality.”
― Brian L. Weiss, M.D.

“Having 'holy' thoughts, and doing bad deeds, such a lot are assholes indeed.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“We are so obsessed with rationality, that we even try to rationalize our irrational behaviours.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, How Leaders Decide: Tackling Biases and Risks in Decision Making

“We are nice; but we're broken.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“It’s much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that.”
― Carla H Krueger, The Social Worker

“Checked thoroughly, humans stink.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“We're shameless in overlooking our own faults, but graceless in letting go another's.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“You boast of what you already have yet feel insecure and jealous when you find in same in others. That's how fragile you're, Grow Up!” ”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“People tend to over react on situations to have a bigger and better story to tell, thus receiving more attention.”
― Johan Coetzer

“Patience of a teacher breaks when he throws chalk on student.”
― Pawan Prakash Tirkey

“Strange, indeed, is the way one tends to react to the differing peculiarities in others. None reminds the rotund about the obesity, for the fear of offending them, but when it comes to the lean, unmindful of embarrassing them, all tend to voice their anxiety.”
― B.S. Murthy, Benign Flame: Saga of Love

“எனக்குச் சுபாவம் என்று ஒன்று தனியாக இருப்பதாகத் தெரியவில்லை. ஒருவன் ஈடுபடும் வேலை அவனுடைய சுபாவத்தை நிர்ணயித்து விடுகிறது.”
― Ashokamitthiran, ஆகாயத் தாமரை [Aagaya Thamarai]