Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Leary

LSD is known to induce psychosis, in people who have never used it.

Thomas Reid

It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed to be right, and to which he was influenced, more or less, by that belief.

Robert J. Shiller

The good news is that, at least in economics, I've seen movement away from its overemphasis on mathematical models of purely rational behavior to a more eclectic and commonsense approach: research that is, among other things, more respectful of insights from psychology.

Robert Anton Wilson

Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology

Richard Dawkins

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

Robert Sternberg

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.

Robert Sternberg

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

Werner Erhard

Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person’s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for most of us is an attempt to gratify our needs; our psychological needs, our material needs, our personal needs … Individuals transform when there’s a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they’ve already got...

Samuel Beckett

We are all born; some remain so.

Ursula K. Le Guin

What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we call psychosis is sometimes simply realism. But human beings can't live on realism alone.

Stefan Zweig

Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses. Even if it thoroughly analyzes itself, psychology (and this is one of the dubious aspects of psychoanalysis) can, to be sure, recognize its flawed native characteristics, but it cannot eliminate them. Understanding (them) is not the same as overcoming (them) and, again and again, we see the wisest of human beings helpless in the fact of their small follies which everyone else observes with a smile.

Henry David Thoreau

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

James Carville

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Frantz Fanon

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

Jean Piaget

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Jean Piaget

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.

Evan Davis

Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

Ferdinand de Saussure

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.

Eriq La Salle

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

Henry Miller

When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

Cassandra Clare

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

James Ellroy

Where’s your sketch pad?” I asked. … “I gave that up,” Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.” “To what?” “To pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history.” “I like a woman who knows what she wants.” Kay smiled. “So do I, but I don’t know any.

James Hillman

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

James Hillman

Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet.

Mike DeWine

There's no psychological barrier anymore that stops a young person or an older person from taking heroin.

Keith Barry

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.

Karl A. Menninger

Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.

Ken Kesey

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

Katie Price

I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.

Ivan Pavlov

It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.

Ivan Pavlov

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.