Quotes about psychology
psychology mind definite
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. James Mark Baldwin
psychology pseudo periods
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.
psychology chess brutal
Few things are as psychologically brutal as chess. Garry Kasparov
psychology helping aim
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. Edward Thorndike
psychology alas
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true. Hermann Ebbinghaus
psychology society progress
Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis. Norman O. Brown
psychology problem mechanic
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. Hippolyte Taine
psychology obsession obsessed
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. John Irving
psychology
I've never studied psychology. Hayao Miyazaki
psychology levels come-up
The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. Henry David Thoreau
psychology action moral
[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.... Immanuel Kant
psychology epistemology absolutes
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. Jean Piaget
psychology moments boundaries
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.
psychology important whats-important
Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology. James Carville
psychology study prison
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. Jacques Yves Cousteau
psychology world culture
To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. Frantz Fanon
psychology language social
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
psychology vices idleness
Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice? Friedrich Nietzsche
psychology reason cosmology
In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything. James Hillman
psychology needs awakening
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.
psychology want pads
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 Ellroy
psychology natural stills
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
psychology trying facts
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
psychology degrees
A psychology degree doesn't get you very far. Jerry Bruckheimer
psychology wrestler
The best wrestlers, whether its a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business. Hulk Hogan
psychology hot topics
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
psychology culture done
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does. George Lucas
psychology understanding important
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.
psychology cannibalism
I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging. Peter O'Toole
psychology human-nature pity
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. Gilbert K. Chesterton
psychology bases
I will always love psychology, and the basis of psychology is family. Jodie Foster
psychology useless poison
Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison. Karl Kraus
psychology actors theater
Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain. Julius Charles Hare