No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
– Anton Chekhov
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- There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality. – Anton Chekhov
- Once a man gets a fixed idea, there’s nothing to be done. – Anton Chekhov
- The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. – Larry Niven
- I love fools who don’t know they are fools but hate fools that know they are. – Hmedon
- I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey – is it possible that’s attractive to women? – Anton Chekhov
- They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. – Anton Chekhov
- The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them. – Anton Chekhov
- We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. – Anton Chekhov
- If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself. – Anton Chekhov
- Man is what he believes. – Anton Chekhov
- Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get fed up with one, I spend the night with the other – Anton Chekhov
- Only one who loves can remember so well. – Anton Chekhov
- I’ve never been in love. I’ve dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost. – Anton Chekhov
- MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that? – Anton Chekhov
- For God’s sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch. – Anton Chekhov
- I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. – Anton Chekhov
- And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life. – Anton Chekhov
- True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know. – Anton Chekhov
- Podtyagin considers whether to take offence or not — and decides to take offence. – Anton Chekhov
- Political debate: when charlatans come together to discuss their principles. – Bauvard
- You don’t need to be a psychologist to manage change, but you need to understand psychological emotions behind changes. – Pearl Zhu
- The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.Carl JungSwiss psychologist (1875 – 1961) – CG Jung
- …they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us. – Ayn Rand
- Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That’s what fiction is: a game of pretend. – Marty Rubin
- Don’t worry about whether you can do it, Bailey Bean. Just pretend you can. Pretend enough and it becomes real. – Jill Shalvis
- To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. – Jacques Derrida
- Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don’t but its harder to pretend that you don’t love someone when you really do.. – Anonymous
- Only fools listen to their hearts. Only fools get attached. We wanderers get in and get out just in time. – Shruti Upadhaya
- In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes – Robert Jordan
- Silence beyond being the answer to fools, is sometimes the answer of fools. – Prinx Maurice
- But old fools is the biggest fools there is. – Mark Twain
- The fools among us are presented to be wise and the wise among us are presented to be fools. – Santosh Kalwar
- The child psychologist’s clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown. – Rebecca McNutt
- The city gives even to children a sophisticated look that baffles the casual psychologist. – Honor Willsie Morrow
- Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes. – Thomas J Scheff
- A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself. – Clifford Cohen
- There is a young abused girl whose recovery is dependent on your willingness to honour your calling as a pastor, social worker, psychologist, etc. – DS Mashego
- My mother’s psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off. – Meg Cabot
- Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you. – LH