Psychology Quotes
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The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.
Boris Sidis -
Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests.
Twyla Tharp
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There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.
Erik Erikson -
One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.
Annie Parisse -
To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.
Andre Braugher -
I'd read a lot about the psychology around rejection and insecurity, and I had noticed that when people feel insecure or rejected, they behave aggressively, erratically. Especially when you can hide behind a screen name or a profile picture.
Whitney Wolfe Herd -
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
Alison Gopnik -
According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent.
Dalai Lama
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Introspectionism got its ism because the protesting new schools needed a clear and stable contrasting background against which to exhibit their novel features. No proponent of introspection a the basic method of psychology ever called himself an introspectionist.
Edwin Boring -
My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization.
Antoni Porowski -
Social media is about sociology and psychology more then technology.
Brian Solis -
Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.
Dean Koontz -
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
William James -
Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.
David Dreman
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harlie, a little psychology is a dangerous thing. i know enough to know what you’re trying to do. it won’t work. the awareness of a psychological pressure is sometimes enough to nullify it. the mere awareness.
David Gerrold -
American psychology inherited its physical body from German experimentalism, but it got its mind from Darwin.
Edwin Boring -
We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.
Ellen Langer -
Some fundamentalists go so far as to reject psychology as a disciplined study, which is unfortunate and polarizing. By definition, psychology is the study of the soul, theology is the study of God. Generally speaking, systematic theology is a study of all the essential doctrines of faith, and that would include the study of our souls (psychology).
Neil T Anderson -
One of my mottoes as a writer is a little jotting from Kafka's journals: ‘Never again psychology!’ But alas, humankind is obsessed with its psychological workings, and since the novel can only treat of humankind . . . You see my predicament.
John Banville -
Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.
William S. Burroughs
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Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum of my behaviorism. I disagree with this second point, but I agree with the first. I hold further that the behaviorism approach is mandatory. In psychology one may or may not be a behaviorist, but in linguistics one has no choice.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.
Alexei Sayle -
I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.
Keith Henson -
There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.
Geoffrey Canada