<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Psychological subjects - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The envious only hate the excellence they cannot reach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52442]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52443]]></link><description><![CDATA[If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise learn many things from their foes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise learn many things from their foes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52436]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will not become a saint through other people's sins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52425]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest...The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the foundation of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the foundation of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasti!4:2]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. [Ecclesiasti!4:2].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52428]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52430]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion holds up the botton of the world, while genius paints its roof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52413]]></link><description><![CDATA[My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to correct your own faults than those of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52406]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52407]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power concedes nothing without a demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52393]]></link><description><![CDATA[...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52385]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52387</guid></item></channel></rss>