Top 100 Quotes About Psychology
#1. Reverse psychology is an awesome tool, I don't know if you guys know about it, but basically you can make someone think the opposite of what you believe, and that tricks them into doing something stupid. Works like a charm.
Michael Scott
#2. I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family.
Jodie Foster
#3. I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.
Robert Sternberg
#4. Psychology, trading tactics, and money management are the three pillars of success, but there is the fourth factor that ties them together. That factor - which integrates all others - is record-keeping.
Anonymous
#5. The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.
Malcolm X
#6. Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
Tariq Ramadan
#7. My background is in psychology and I'm also a stage actor. That's my background.
Tommy Wiseau
#8. Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
Ferdinand De Saussure
#9. There are ... for us no instincts - we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training - belonging to man's learned behavior.
John B. Watson
#10. A sociocultural environment is not some cunningly contrived thing only exists in social psychology labs. Don't look now, but you're in one right this moment.
Cordelia Fine
#11. I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.
Martin Seligman
#12. My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.
Sebastian Faulks
#13. When facts are few, speculations are most likely to represent individual psychology.
Carl Jung
#14. The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.
Sigmund Freud
#15. Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.
Vir Das
#16. Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.
Ian Harding
#17. Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.
Scott Hamilton
#18. 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
#19. The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side ... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
Abraham Maslow
#20. Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.
Joseph Campbell
#21. I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.
Norman Mailer
#22. If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
Robert A. Heinlein
#23. There's too much psychology in the world.
People should live by the Golden Rule. And dance the Tango. Passion is good.
Lee DeBourg
#24. Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#25. 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
#26. Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#27. The ultimate purpose of psychology is to release from psychology.
Shai Tubali
#28. I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.
Albert Einstein
#29. The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#30. A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
Stanley Smith Stevens
#31. Isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:
Tim Harford
#32. My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained in a behaviorist approach to psychology which - whatever its limitations - at least taught me to see human behavior in its social context).
Richard Bentall
#33. If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
Maddie Hasson
#35. Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women ... merely adored.
Oscar Wilde
#36. Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope ... "
"Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves."
"No, sir."
"There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn't."
"Very true, sir.
P.G. Wodehouse
#37. The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.
Carl Jung
#38. Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.
Wilhelm Wundt
#39. Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.
Evan Davis
#40. Vegas has the Whitman's Sampler of audiences. They come from all different places, so you have to do some crowd psychology. You have to find the heartbeat of the room. It doesn't shift my jokes, but it shifts my timing and my attention.
Hal Sparks
#41. 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
#42. People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.
James Hillman
#43. My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
Simon Newcomb
#44. Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious.
Carl Jung
#46. I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#47. It is quite possible
overwhelmingly probable, one might guess
that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology
Noam Chomsky
#48. I always said I would have gone in to psychology, or maybe the FBI. I'm really in to and interested in humans and their minds and emotions. I think that's another reason I like songwriting. It's amazing the stories you can tell about someone, just from a little people watching
Jessica Harp
#49. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
Raf Simons
#50. Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
Barry Schwartz
#51. Child psychology and child psychiatry cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.
Thomas Szasz
#52. In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.
Mindy Kaling
#53. I'm fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they do or why we are the way we are, and it's not exclusive to the psychology of a character.
Tatiana Maslany
#54. Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.
Noah Baumbach
#55. Every mind has another vision of reality. There is not a common reality. Every person thinks he is like the others, but every person is different, living in his own psychology.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#56. 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
#57. Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psychology of evil, not in the slightest. Perhaps I'm not interested in evil, but in the dark sides of human beings.
Lars Von Trier
#58. The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.
Daniel Crevier
#59. Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
Samuel Alexander
#61. Essentially, what the most important questions we can ever ask ourselves are, "Who am I? Who are we all? What do we share, and what is our purpose here? How do we discover meaning?" Addressing these questions is the core of Inspirational Psychology.
Lee L Jampolsky
#62. Sometimes I think that kids who are given junk food then don't crave it as adults in the same way. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what the psychology is behind it before I have children.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#63. I want to get back to education. When I was in college I paid attention to child psychology portions of our psychology classes. I watch other people work with babies. And I saw the baby as developing like a computer and it intrigued me in my life. I wanted to do that.
Steve Wozniak
#64. It is impossible to ignore a highly important factor of the chess struggle - psychology.
Yuri Averbakh
#65. I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
George W. Crane
#66. I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it.
Lindsey Shaw
#67. Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
George Herbert Mead
#68. It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.
Frederick Lenz
#70. Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It's magic of the mind.
Keith Barry
#71. A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.
Thomas Moore
#72. Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
Nate Berkus
#73. My sister tested my IQ when she was getting her master's degree in school psychology and I tested as a genius in half the categories and nearly cognitively impaired in the other half.
Amy Schumer
#74. I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.
Hank Azaria
#75. 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
#76. I started out with a business and psychology major, and then I started doing plays and concentrating more and more on theater. I dropped out of college and moved to New York and studied theater at The Neighborhood Playhouse. I did that for a couple of years and then got an agent.
Linden Ashby
#77. Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.
James K. Morrow
#78. The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness.
Naum Gabo
#79. I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
Criss Angel
#80. The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.
John Blair
#81. Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.
David Dreman
#82. All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.
Bernard Baruch
#83. Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology ('Just do it!') to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression. It
Yuval Noah Harari
#84. Psychology, and medicine. Accounts of scientific lives in neuroscience
Anonymous
#85. Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.
Teller
#86. They [Americans] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions.
Use little things to break big things, says Saint Paul, describing an essential feature of the psychology of hope.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
#87. Positive psychology is both a movement and a science. The movement involves absolutely anyone who is interested in evidence-based approaches to improving well-being, either for themselves or for their community. I invite you to join this movement!
Barbara Fredrickson
#88. Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world.
Munia Khan
#89. It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.
Malcolm X
#90. I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
William James
#91. Sex is ... scratching an itch Everything else is something we project on a very simple act. It's the psychology, not the biology, that's complicated.
Joy Browne
#92. Of course, we are drawn to teachers who unconsciously mirror our own psychology. None of us are clean. We all make mistakes. It's the repetition of those mistakes and the refusal to look at them that compound the suffering and assure their continuation.
Natalie Goldberg
#93. Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.
Wilhelm Wundt
#94. I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.
Zachary Quinto
#95. I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.
Michelle Wie
#96. Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.
John Dewey
#97. I majored in psychology, and I still love listening to people's problems.
Gayle King
#98. American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)
Alvin Dueck
#99. The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
Wilhelm Wundt
#100. When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.
Phil McGraw
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