Psychology Quotes

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

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

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

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

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

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

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing.

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.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

I loved psychology and I loved history.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.

It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

I need to do psychology classes. That would be so interesting to me, studying people.

I used to be and I still am into psychology. I would like to be able to pursue something like that, but I don't know. The older I've gotten, the more endearing this business has become and I can't really imagine leaving it.

People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.