Psychology Study Quotes

#1. Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?
Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.

Idries Shah

#2. It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats

Celia Green

#3. A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

Mark Fuhrman

#4. I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

Gary Wright

#5. The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.

Maria Montessori

#6. I took a psychology class, and I think the study of the mind can help me further my acting ability. It's also taught me about getting into an environment with new people and acting like you've known them forever.

Sierra McCormick

#7. If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology.

Shanina Shaik

#8. Art being a thing of the mind, it follows that any scientific study of art will be psychology. It may be other things as well, but psychology it will always be.

Max J. Friedlander

#9. I study English literature but my friends are doing psychology and things like that. No one cares about acting there. It's not competitive and it's a nice environment for me.

Yasmin Paige

#10. In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.

James Mark Baldwin

#11. When I went to college I knew what I wanted to study, and what career I wanted to pursue. I wanted to study psychology in order to become a clinical psychologist.

Jay L. Garfield

#12. Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

Criss Jami

#13. When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

William Gibson

#14. My dream was to study psychology in Israel. It's a long journey - it's seven years of study.

Moran Atias

#15. Italy was a surprise in my life. I went there just to make money and then go back to Israel and study psychology. The arts wasn't something I grew up with or thought I could be part of.

Moran Atias

#16. Voices in the study of positive psychology, framed the traits as hope, wisdom, creativity, future-mindedness, courage, spirituality, responsibility, and perseverance. V. Paraphrased from a speech given by Bruce Springsteen

Martin Dugard

#17. I loved the study of psychology. I didn't love seeing patient after patient. I was perpetually overstimulated, busy decoding everything I took in.

Laurie Helgoe

#18. I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

Henry Reed

#19. Positive psychology is the study of what constitutes excellence in individuals, communities, and workplaces. It incorporates the study of productivity, resilience, motivation, emotions, strengths, team dynamics, and more.

Margaret Greenberg

#20. When I finished high school, it was clear to me that I would study mathematics, even if I also considered economics and psychology.

Reinhard Selten

#21. The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

Idries Shah

#22. Most serial killers and criminals study psychology at some point. It's easier to spot them that way,

Cameron Jace

#23. If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.

Abraham Zaleznik

#24. Popularity is a mathematical formula based on desirability criteria. High schools are a classic anthropological case study, and getting people to respond in the way you want is psychology. All science. It's just not the type of science that you're used to.

Eileen Cook

#25. Yes, one day perhaps the leading intellects of Russia and of Europe will study the psychology of Russian crime, for the subject is worth it. But

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

Abraham Maslow

#27. Sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

Jon Ronson

#28. One of the problems with studies that examine the effects of violent imagery is that they typically use mentally healthy psychology students. If you want to do a meaningful study, show movies like Body Double and Copycat to a group of sexual psychopaths the day before you release them.

Park Dietz

#29. Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Rich Lowry

#30. It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#31. Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")

William S. Wilson

#32. After the war Avi, by then twenty-two years old, finally decided what he would study: psychology. Had you asked him just then why he picked psychology, "I would say I want to understand the human soul. Not the mind. The soul.

Michael Lewis

#33. I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in 'CR Fashion Book' and 'Sports Illustrated' came out. It was crazy!

Gigi Hadid

#34. Philosophy and Psychology

The latter is study of researched human brain and behavior

The former is the behavior after studying the human brain.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#35. Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

Carl Jung

#36. I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.

Ron Moody

#37. Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Henry Adams

#38. Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

Richard Wall

#39. Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

Idries Shah

#40. The systematic study of mass psychology revealed to students the potentialities of invisible government of society by manipulation of the motives which actuate man in the group.

Edward Bernays

#41. Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

James Hillman

#42. It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously

Tony Benn

#43. Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

Paul Bloom

#44. I'd definitely like to study other things and keep on learning all the time, but I wouldn't want to do anything else. Ultimately, acting is my craft. I've always been interested in psychology and nutrition, but I don't know that I'd go and make that my profession.

Cindy Busby

#45. The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Umberto Eco