Quotes About General Psychology

#1. The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

Wilhelm Wundt

#2. The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

Wilhelm Reich

#3. Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.

Idries Shah

#4. My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren't prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.

Joss Sheldon

#5. If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly.

Lauren Oliver

#6. Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

Bertrand Russell

#7. Folly and evil are disciples of doom;
wisdom and righteousness are servants of life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of my twenties.

Evangeline Lilly

#9. The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

Pope Francis

#10. 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

#11. I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.

Sheridan Smith

#12. Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

Wilhelm Wundt

#14. Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

Ronald Reagan

#15. Weasels piss on you, Iz. I'm not done yet.

Susan Dennard

#16. Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.

Carl Jung

#17. The college bookstore was a splash of life, culture, and society. As a psychology student, I often found myself intrigued by the behavior, ways of thinking and feeling, and general schemata of others, and this was the perfect spot to engage my senses.
Other times, I was just annoyed.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#18. Apparently, it can be easy to forget that other people have minds with the same general capacities and experiences as your own. Once seen as lacking the ability to reason, to choose freely, or to feel, a person is considered something less than human.

Nicholas Epley

#19. Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.

Sigmund Freud

#20. You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.

Daniel Kahneman

#21. Blood, sweat and fingers.

Bonnie McCune

#22. I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

Bailey Chase

#23. God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Charles Stanley

#24. Familiarity isn't always a good thing ... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.

Karl Hyde

#25. I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

Jared Harris

#26. War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Mao Tse-tung

#27. In a world of prophecy and war, where so much of my life followed a path laid out by duty and destiny,Tristan had enough strength to give me what no one else could. The one precious thing I needed the most. A choice.

Emma Raveling

#28. It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#29. The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

William Styron