Psychology Quotes - Page 16

• I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Theatre, Cinema, Used

  "The Films Of Rainer Werner Fassbinder: A Retrospective", www.indiewire.com. July 29, 2011.

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• 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.

  Richard Wall

  Discipline, Study, Academic

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• A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

  Stanley Smith Stevens

  Century, States, Surveys

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• No discovery of modern psychology is, in my opinion, so important as its scientific proof of the necessity of self-sacrifice (or discipline) to self-realization and happiness.

  Henry C. Link

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Discovery

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• You always catch the wrong players.

  Abe Lemons

  Sports, Player, Sports Psychology

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• Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, America, Promise

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• Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the student as complete a view as is possible anywhere of the way scientific method can be applied to psychological problems. Secondly, it is of immense practical importance, educationally, socially, and in regard to physiology and genetics.

  Raymond Cattell

  Science, Views, Two

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• Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

  David Chalmers

  Interesting, Philosopher, Consciousness

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• Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Goal, Unintended Consequences, Want To Be Happy

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• Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they sought to attain the same end by asking another person a question, by means of which certain processes of thought would be excited, and then by questioning the person about the introspection he had made. It is obvious ... that nothing can be discovered in such experiments.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Mean, Would Be, Attention

  Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.75, Read Books Ltd

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• I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in terms of the equation of my own life. Adding "X" to my own life has given me a freedom that I didn't have before in the equation of my own existence.

  Allie X

  Mean, Math, Thinking

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• Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science.

  Wolfgang Kohler

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• The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

  Gordon Allport

  Dog, Offering, Long

  "A Psychological Interpretation". Book by Gordon Allport, p. 199, 1938.

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• Psychology must not only strive to become a useful basis for the other mental sciences, but it must also turn again and again to the historical sciences, in order to obtain an understanding for the more highly developed metal processes.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Order, Understanding, Historical

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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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• 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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• Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Hands, Giving, Consciousness

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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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• 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 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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• The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Ideas, Done, Wells

  "Daniel Kahneman: 'We're beautiful devices'" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2011.

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• Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations joined to certain central cerebral processes... It is contradicted by the fact of consciousness itself, which cannot possibly be derived from any physical qualities of material molecules or atoms.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Law, Quality, Molecules

  Wilhelm Wundt, (2013). “An Introduction to Psychology”, p.78, Read Books Ltd

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• The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Attitude, Philosophy, Medicine

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

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