Psychology Quotes - Page 14

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

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Views, Heuristics, Materialistic

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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

  Michelle Wie

  Sports, Crazy, Madness

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• Individuality is different than isolation. Isolation is trying to do everything on your own, living life by yourself. Isolation happens when you choose not to be involved in any communities, making sure you keep a safe distance from people in your life. I’m not recommending isolation. Science, psychology, and religion all suggest long term isolation is dangerous and unhealthy.

  Stephen Lovegrove

  Distance, Live Life, Long

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• Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

  Albert Memmi

  Hands, Racism, Doe

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  Nate Berkus

  School, Kids, Design

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• A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

  Ariel Gore

  Privilege, Stuck, Rejects

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• People can cry much easier than they can change, a rule of psychology people like me picked up as kids on the street.

  James A. Baldwin

  Kids, People, Cry

  "James Baldwin Back Home" by Robert Coles, archive.nytimes.com. July 31, 1977.

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• Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.... The sound man needs work to keep him sound, but the nervous invalid has an even greater need of work to draw him out of his isolation, and to stop the miseries of doubt and self-scrutiny, to win back self-respect and the support of fellowship.

  Richard Clarke Cabot

  Winning, Men, Self

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

  Philip Zimbardo

  Passion, Half, Century

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• There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Electrical, Units, Appliances

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

  Bertrand Russell

  Civilization, Long, Survival

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• It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Human Nature, Pity, Psychiatrist

  Observer 9 December (1934)

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• A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Mistake, Reality, Interesting

  The Unquiet Grave Pt II

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• This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Children, Men, Two

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

  Carl Sagan

  Independence, Metaphor, Human Condition

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Christopher McDougall

  Spring, Common Sense, Heroism

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• The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

  George F. Kennan

  Loss, Self, Judging

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• Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

  Paul Bloom

  Two, White, Population

  "The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century (Toward a Theory of Moral Development)". Anthology edited by John Brockman, May 14, 2002.

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• The best way to deal with somebody is to deal with yourself.

  Terry Cole-Whittaker

  Way, Deals, Best Way

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• It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation.

  Carl Jung

  Knowledge, Numbers, Challenges

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 57, 1933.

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

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Order, Law, Different

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• It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Independent, Rely Upon, Domain

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• I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

  Joan Cusack

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

  Billy Zane

  Training, First Impression, Too Much

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

  Evan Davis

  Hot, Topics, Moments

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