Psychology Quotes

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology.

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology.

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

I would love for the world to have a dog psychology center everywhere.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

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.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.

More succinctly put, Inspirational Psychology offers ways to live, learn about, and practice love.

There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology.

I think politics come out of psychology.

I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.

Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

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

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.

One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.

In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

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

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother

One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

One cleans someone else's threshold of consciousness only if one's own home is dirty.