Great Psychologist Quotes

#1. First mark of the self-preservative instinct of the great psychologist: he never seeks himself, he has no eyes for himself, no interest or curiosity in himself

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

Lytton Strachey

#3. No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed ... He was a great psychologist.

Wilhelm Keitel

#4. Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#5. Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#6. Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in some way.

Jim Bouton

#7. But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

Colin Wilson

#8. I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist ... it was a great education in human nature.

Jonathan Kellerman

#9. Don't cut your nose off yourself.

Casey Stengel

#10. The personality trait most associated with an interest in the arts is called openness, the tendency to seek out novelty in intellectual, aesthetic, and emotional pursuits.

Adam Grant

#11. It's the irrational things that interest me.

Harrison Birtwistle

#12. The challenge for people today
and it is not and easy one
is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

Nathaniel Branden

#13. He tried sedatives and hypnotics but they made him dependent, sending him inward in tight spirals. Every act he performed was self-haunted and synthetic. The palest thought carried an anxious shadow.

Don DeLillo

#14. The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

Richard Dawkins

#15. Enemies! People these days don't have enemies! Not English people!

Agatha Christie

#16. I try to think about positive things - how great my form is, how my arms are swinging, my breathing, how loud people are cheering. My sports psychologist taught me there are a million things telling you you can't keep going, but if you find the things that say you can, you're golden.

Kara Goucher

#17. Sometimes, we have bad on the inside and good on the outside. In these instances, we need to be able to open up our boundaries to let the good in and the bad out. In other words, our fences need gates in them.

Henry Cloud

#18. I think it's possible to make a blockbuster that is actually emotional. They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

Rupert Sanders

#19. Lev Vygotsky, the great Russian psychologist, used to speak of "thinking in pure meanings." I cannot decide whether this is nonsense or profound truth - it is the sort of reef I end up on when I think about thinking.

Oliver Sacks

#20. In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

Anne Fortier

#21. Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. Each day a day goes by.

Carlo Goldoni