Psychology Quotes

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

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

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

I think politics come out of psychology.

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

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

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

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.

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

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

The goal of individuation is wholeness, as much as we can accomplish, not the triumph of the ego.

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard.

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very much believe that some people are evil and motivation is not necessary for evil.

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.

Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man.

You always catch the wrong players.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

I was hedging my bets by the time I got to college. I was interested in drama and journalism and psychology.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.

I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.

Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.

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

He has the players too happy.