Quotes About Learning Psychology

#1. The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

Daniel Kahneman

#2. Any child who can spend an hour or two a day, or more if he wants, with adults that he likes, who are interested in the world and like to talk about it, will on most days learn far more from their talk than he would learn in a week of school.

John Holt

#3. I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.

Eric Kandel

#4. We do not want to deny existence. Yet we also do not want to limit existence. Thus, we observe and honor without forming opinion, labeling, or adding a story to the object of our observation.

Alaric Hutchinson

#5. If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

Maria Montessori

#6. The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

Idries Shah

#7. Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. Feeling your way to knowledge rather than thinking your way, often results in better learning.

Sam Owen

#9. It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned ... You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.

Chaim Potok

#10. Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

John Adams

#11. I like business, and the truth is I save way more than I spend. I invest. I plan for the future. I have a special eye for opportunities and work harder than anyone might expect.

Sofia Vergara

#12. You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day
from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

Lisa Unger

#13. The religious guilt cycle interferes with learning and change. Rather than learning who he is as a sexual being, he measures himself against an impossible religious sexual standard and always comes up short. Absent religion, many unrestricted people can deal with their behavior in a rational manner.

Darrel Ray

#14. While learning about phobias in my college psychology course, I came across the fear of long words- or, as referred to in the medical community: hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.

John Goldner

#15. Everyone is doing the best they can with what they know, and we are all here to learn and grow.

Alaric Hutchinson

#16. Patience is a garment which has never worn out.

Idries Shah

#17. Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.

William Giraldi

#18. Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Idries Shah

#20. If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!

Meryl Streep

#21. Learning anything interesting?"
"Not really. Psychology sounds a lot more interesting than it actually is."
Dad looked at me over the paper. "I'm afraid that's the same with most things in life.

Holly Bourne

#22. Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality.

Alaric Hutchinson

#23. I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.

Afrojack

#24. Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

Calvin Coolidge

#25. Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life.

David B. Haight

#26. I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

Sarah Dessen

#27. 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

#28. Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

James Hillman

#29. If you don't take life seriously,
Life will take you, seriously!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#30. The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.

Idries Shah

#31. Correct teaching brings out human excellence.

Idries Shah

#32. The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Idries Shah

#33. I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

Molly Quinn

#34. Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.

Julian Assange

#35. 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