Psychology Quotes

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Parent, Idleness

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
Paul Dudley White

Good, Unhappy, Walk

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.
Albert Ellis

Future, School, Child

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

Aim, Measure, Attainable

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
Mason Cooley

Nature, History, Human

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.
Theodor Adorno

Beyond, Reach, Horror

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Human, Study, Lead

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.
Maxwell Maltz

Feelings, Result, Level

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

History, Philosophy, Learned

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

Act, Watch, Observer

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

Working, Involved, Rats

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

Best, Give, Different

I'd always been interested in psychology.
Morrie Schwartz

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.
Marc Andreessen

Important, Understand, Matter

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.
John Desmond Bernal

Sex, Mind, Simple

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.
Thomas Szasz

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.
Laura Schlessinger

Bad, Evil, Talk

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

I think politics come out of psychology.
Bruce Springsteen

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.
Muhammad Iqbal

Understand, Why, Impossible

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
Robert Anton Wilson

History, View, Economics

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

Important, Ideologies

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.
Jon Meacham

Same, Put, Action

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

Studying, Classes

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.
Serj Tankian

Good, Through, Trying

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

Education, Art, Science

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

Women, Men, Point

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
Bobby Flay

Making, Side, Meat

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.
Phil McGraw

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.
Phil McGraw

Money, Through, Tell

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