Psychologists Quotes

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.