Awareness Quotes

"The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place."

- Jim Butcher

"Reality denied comes back to haunt."

- Philip K. Dick

"We forget very easily what gives us pain."

- Graham Greene

"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation, but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."

- Eckhart Tolle

"The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves."

- John B. Watson

"Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, 'What else could this mean?'"

- Shannon L. Alder

"Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated… the body sticks to the facts."

- Alice Miller

"The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works."

- Daniel Kahneman

"It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it."

- Sigmund Freud

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

- William James

"My experience is what I agree to attend to."

- William James

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."

- Alfred Adler

"Sensation tell us a thing is. Thinking tell us what it is this thing is. Feeling tells us what this thing is to us."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear."

- William James

"It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life."

- Sigmund Freud

"It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature."

- Melanie Klein

"According to Claparède, feelings appoint a goal for behaviour, while intelligence merely provides the means (the "technique"). But there exists an awareness of ends as well as of means, and this continually modifies the goals of action."

- Jean Piaget

"Lose your mind and come to your senses."

- Fritz Perls

"A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room."

- Fritz Perls

"Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases."

- Kurt Lewin

"Our behavior is purposeful; we live in a psychological reality or living space that includes not only those parts of our physical and social environment that are important to us but also imagined states that do not currently exist."

- Kurt Lewin

"A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization."

- Karen Horney

"No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time."

- Karen Horney

"What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see."

- Jean Piaget

"A response is thus a particular case of interaction between the external world and the subject, but unlike physiological interactions, which are of a material nature and involve an internal change in the bodies which are present, the responses studied by psychology are of a functional nature and are achieved at greater and greater distances in space (perception, etc.) and in time (memory, etc.) besides following more and more complex paths (reversals, detours, etc.)."

- Jean Piaget

"A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow."

"Internal and external action are inseparable: imagination, interpretation, and will are internal processes in external action."

"The internalization of socially rooted historically developed activities is the distinguishing feature of human psychology."

"Consciousness is reflected in the word like the sun in a drop of water"