Psychology Quotes

The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. (Wilhelm Wundt)
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. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. View quote
Paul Valéry
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. View quote
Lin Yutang
In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one. View quote
William James
Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats. View quote
Paul Bloom
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. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
...People that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing. View quote
Marc Jacobs
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. View quote
Agatha Christie
I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves. (Bobby Fischer)
Natural science served as - if we overlook the hasty identification of mind and matter which had its origin in natural science - as a shining and fruitful example to psychology. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand. View quote
Eugen Drewermann
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. View quote
John Ralston Saul
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. View quote
Martin Seligman
Physics is becoming the study of organization. In this way ... it will converge with biology and psychology. View quote
Wolfgang Köhler
The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others. View quote
Gordon W. Allport
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. View quote
Albert Ellis
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. View quote
Chris Cleave
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. View quote
Christopher McDougall
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. (Wilhelm Wundt)
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member. View quote
George Herbert Mead
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. View quote
Edward Thorndike
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. View quote
Edward Thorndike