Human Psychology Quotes

“One of history’s fews iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations. Once people get used to a certain luxury, they take it for granted. Then they begin to count on it. Finally they reach a point where they can’t live without it. Over the few decades, we have invented countless time saving machines that are supposed to make like more relaxed - washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, mobile phones, computers, email. We thought we were saving time; instead we revved up the treadmill of life to ten times its former speed and made our days more anxious and agitated.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Oscar Wilde once said, “Whatever is popular is wrong.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail:Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Most of the arguments that happen on social media are not based on facts but are merely formed on the foundation of guesses, assumptions and opinions.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail:Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Humans' needs are never constant, and they are also very complex.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail:Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“We regret more what we have not done than what we have done. So, be ready to fail!”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail:Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“Men most often know what they want, yet they are not always sure how they feel. Women most often know how they feel, yet they may not always know what they want.”
― Ken Poirot, Mentor Me: GA=T+E—A Formula to Fulfill Your Greatest Achievement

“Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.”
― Raheel Farooq

“We biologists often use the phrase “Mother Nature” to refer to the entire system of Nature that we see around us, but it is not really an entity, and it does not have any real concern for any of its living creatures – it lives on with or without us; it is in our human psychology to impose a human-like identity upon any grand system that we encounter around us – it gives us a sense of closeness to that system and makes us feel an essential part of it. When I say, Mother Nature designed us, or programmed us, I am simply referring to the process of natural selection.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Wise Mating: A Treatise on Monogamy

“The world now understands the concept of a 'desk murderer.' We know that one doesn't need to be fanatical, sadistic, or mentally ill to murder millions; that it is enough to be a loyal follower eager to do one's duty.”
― Simon Weisenthal

“A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The same sun gives different colors to different plants. The snake and bee drinks water but one of them produces poison, the other one produces honey.”
― Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

“Just because everyone else does, it doesn't mean you have to. Break the repetitive cycle and excel beyond the norm.”
― Torron-Lee Dewar

“There is a correspondence between economic trends and trends in human psychology. The result of this correspondence is a wave function which permeates economic realities with ebbs and flows of economic activity. People who learn to identify the correspondence may then learn to ride the wave by aligning their actions with the ebbs and flows of opportunity.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When we know that it's a planet just like this one, only with a better climate and worse people--when we know they're all propertarians, and fight wars, and make laws, and eat while other starve, and anyhow are all getting older and having bad luck and getting rheumatic knees and corns on their toes just like people there...when we know all that, why does it still look so happy--as if life there must be happy?..."... "If you can see the whole thing," he said, "it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives....But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the art is, is to see it as the moon. They way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“The mystical non-sense of afterlife indeed gives solace to the mind in times of weakness, but why should the mind let its weakness be the fuel for primitiveness in the first place!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas

“Hundreds of wild dogs inside me were transformed into cute birds and they are singing now maybe, but still there are some wild dogs there.”
― Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

“I want to peel off the shells of my soul and reach the essence of it.”
― Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

“You need a shock anymore, not a treatment.”
― Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

“A bronze coin you have not is more attractive than a gold coin you have for people like you. That's why loves ends when couples get married.”
― Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

“..like every powerful man, you tend not to obey the existing rules.”
― Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

“When you financially supported the orphanage and loved the orphans, you enriched yourself.”
― Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

“Meera elaborated, “What we consistently create, we ultimately become. If we succumb to temptations often, lust becomes our nature. If we give rise to greed, gluttony becomes our nature. If we beget envy, hatred becomes our nature. You need to be strong”
― Rabb Jyot, Canvas of Life

“Just as the fish in the ocean can only identify the fish, the human can only be influenced by the human. -Neet b”
― Neet b

“Whereby you are full of, it cannot be seen but it can be felt. if you follow its honestly, there won't be any need to do all the external activities and man does activities as he is dissatisfied with what he is.”
― Neet B

“Whereby you are full of, it cannot be seen but it can be felt. if you follow its honestly, there won't be any need to do all the external activities and man does activities as he is dissatisfied with what he is.”
― Nitin Vaja

“No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognised loneliness when she saw it.”
― Arundhati Roy, THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS

“Youth is the mirror that tends us to the reality of our looks. The reflections of our visages that insensibly get implanted in our subconscious lend shape to our psyche to define the course of our life.”
― B.S. Murthy, Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth

“It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It´s what we know for sure that just Ain´t so.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“And how could anyone who was not a god predict the future, shaped as it was by human psychology, human behaviour and pure chance?”
― Yukito Ayatsuji, The Decagon House Murders

“External dependency creates internal bondage.”
― Vinaya