Psychology Theory Quotes

#1. Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Norman O. Brown

#2. I trained in psychiatry in the 1970s, and much of our training was about what was then psychoanalytic theory, with a little bit of theory from Jungian psychology and a few other places.

Thomas R. Insel

#3. There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Steven Pinker

#5. Control Master Theory suggests that our psychological problems come about in much the same way: our decision to make ourselves unhappy because one or both of our parents were unhappy is just as altruistic as our friend's decision to run through flames to save his daughter.

Lewis Engel

#6. I believe that street photography is central to the issue of photography - that it is purely photographic, whereas the other genres, such as landscape and portrait photography, are a little more applied, more mixed in the with the history of painting and other art forms.

Joel Meyerowitz

#7. The romantic reunion and thank-you-for-saving-my-life sex would have to wait until later.

Jennifer Estep

#8. Real communication occurs ... when we listen with understanding. What does this mean? It means to see the expressed idea and attitude from the other person's point of view, to sense how it feels to him, to achieve his frame of reference in regard to the thing he is talking about.

Carl Rogers

#9. People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

Gordon W. Allport

#10. Control Master Theory proposes that most psychological problems are the result of our altruistic impulses run amok.

Lewis Engel

#11. It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

Abraham H. Maslow

#12. A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

Thomas Nagel

#13. To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

Thomas Nagel

#14. A wet eyed preacher will never preach dry sermons

Leonard Ravenhill

#15. If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.

Mike Jay

#16. I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself - or other people - in a different way.

Natalie Portman

#17. No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

Marty Rubin

#18. In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

William James

#19. He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.

E. M. Forster

#20. In the morning, when she walked to the consulate, carefully watching her sandals on the pavement, she glanced up and saw a Negro wearing a stack of panama hats. Maybe twelve. She never forgot the bandoeon of brims, the perfect stutter of hat.

Craig Raine

#21. Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

Amy Vanderbilt

#22. Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

Gordon W. Allport

#23. I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

Lenny Kravitz

#24. Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.

William James

#25. I'm most disturbed by the theory of rubber resilience in children; as if its much easier to bounce back with youth. I see them more like Steel. When heated, they can be bent either which way. But if it's not corrected by the time things cool down, they can be forever changed.

Zack W. Van

#26. It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics of social structure, and of social structure and of individual psychology in situations of conflict.

Anatol Rapoport

#27. To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.

Gordon W. Allport

#28. You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.

Vernon Howard

#29. Finding great training, I think, is number one. I did a lot of research and found really great teachers, and it just takes - I took a year off from school and did independent studies so that I could devote all of my time to it. But I think that training is the key, definitely, and it's not a sport.

Misty Copeland

#30. Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.

Charles Kettering

#31. Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

Christopher McDougall

#32. Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

Albert Bandura

#33. Emotions aren't doable. Actions are doable, and if you do them correctly, they prompt the feelings.

Stella Adler

#34. The fiction writer is, first and foremost, an emotionalist.

Ray Bradbury