Psychology Quotes

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

I can't think of anyone who is up on evolutionary psychology and related areas who is deluded enough to be called a utopian.

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry.

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

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