Quotes About Biological Psychology

#1. Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

Corrie Ten Boom

#2. The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

Martin Seligman

#3. I'm only a god, Vanya, not an expert.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Speaker says psychology has commandeered "everything hard" and partitioned it from Scripture with the assumption that its causes are biological

Edward T. Welch

#5. DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.

Jean Piaget

#7. I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.

Tom Stoppard

#8. In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

Sigmund Freud

#9. That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

Muhammad Iqbal

#10. Y'know, if anyone happens to know the name of a good literary agent that will actually return phone calls...

Rob Steele

#11. Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.

Gad Saad

#12. You and I are the players, God's our head coach, and we're all playing the biggest game of all.

Joe Gibbs

#13. Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control.

Abhijit Naskar

#14. But dividing the mind into "biological" and "psychological" is as fallacious as classifying light as a particle or a wave. The natural world makes no promise to align itself with preconceptions that humans find parsimonious or convenient. (167)

Thomas Lewis

#15. like every other aspect of our psychology, motivation is biological.

John J. Ratey

#16. Our wedding plans please everybody as if we were fertilizing the earth and creating social luck.

Marge Piercy