Quotes about psychology
psychology firsts physiological
Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology. Wilhelm Wundt
psychology ordinary attention
We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the same object... At times the attention turns towards the object most intensely, and at times the energy flags.
psychology problem metaphysical
Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.
psychology mind consciousness
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
psychology fields facts
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
psychology doe substance
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
psychology failing psychological
There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.
psychology information source
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
psychology crowds common
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest. Will Self
psychology survival firsts
For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival. Warren Farrell
psychology theatre cinema
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
psychology majors
I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology. Robert Sternberg
psychology obvious
There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
psychology human-nature trouble
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account. Ruth Rendell
psychology age chronology
Age is not based on chronology, but psychology. Tony Robbins
psychology way action
The only way to create change in anyone`s psychology or belief system is to show them the consequences of their actions - or inaction.
psychology way fields
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology. Simon Newcomb
psychology impediments ideals
The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself. Thomas Carlyle
psychology matter makers
No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers. Robert A. Heinlein
psychology biographies autobiography
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. Thomas Szasz
psychology branches action
I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology. Thomas Nagel
psychology serial-killer want
Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught. Val Kilmer
psychology four human-nature
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. Steven Pinker
psychology evolution indispensable
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.
psychology criticism trying
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'
psychology mind fabric
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.
psychology deals whole
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
psychology criticism important
The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature. Umberto Eco