Psychology Quotes - Page 23

• 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

  15 Copy quote

• Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

  Martin Seligman

  Optimistic, Thinking, Reality

  "Martin Seligman : Pursuing Happiness With a Positive Outlook, not a Pill". Interview with Steve Proffitt, articles.latimes.com. January 24, 1999.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Good Life, Sadness, Purpose

  13 Copy quote

• You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.

  Lauren Burns

  Determined, Being The Best, Positive Psychology

  12 Copy quote

• "Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

  Christopher Peterson

  Moving, People, Matter

  14 Copy quote

• Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.

  John Dewey

  Goal, Action, Positive Psychology

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, John J. McDermott (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1935-1937”, p.501, SIU Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue.

  Martin Seligman

  Creative, Feelings, Intellectual

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.44, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be in New York.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Europe, Want

  4 Copy quote

• The universe stands aside for those people who know where they are going.

  Paulo Coelho

  Leadership, People, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

  Martin Seligman

  Fundamentalist Religion, Brighter Future, Humanistic

  12 Copy quote

• The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.

  Carl Gustav Carus

  Lying, Character, Keys

  7 Copy quote

• Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Children, Animal, Problem

  "Principles of Physiological Psychology".

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Problem, Metaphysical, Treatment

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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Two, Arise, Aspect

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

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

  George W. Crane

  Book, Psychiatry, Practicals

  7 Copy quote

• I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish 'psychic distance' from the 'mental facts' to which Köhler referred, and then to explore the possibilities for developing explanatory theories... We must recognize that even the most familiar phenomena require explanation and that we have no privileged access to the underlying mechanisms, no more so than in physiology or physics.

  Noam Chomsky

  Distance, Thinking, Order

  4 Copy quote

• If we wish to imitate the physical sciences, we must not imitate them in their contemporary, most developed form; we must imitate them in their historical youth, when their state of development was comparable to our own at the present time. Otherwise we should behave like boys who try to copy the imposing manners of full-grown men without understanding their raison d' être, also without seeing that in development one cannot jump over intermediate and preliminary phases.

  Wolfgang Kohler

  Boys, Men, Understanding

  "Gestalt Psychology". Book by Wolfgang Köhler, p. 32, 1930.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements into harmony with each other. If the expressive movement which which follows the idea is retarded through mechanical causes, as is the case in writing ... such anticipations make their appearance with particular ease.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Writing, Ideas, Movement

  4 Copy quote

• It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Science, Men, Understanding

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.

  Edouard Seguin

  Men, Two, Order

  5 Copy quote

• Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Hands, Ideas, Long

  8 Copy quote

• 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.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious strategist – on the premises of Russian history. Understanding US values and psychology are not his strong suits. Nor has understanding Russian history and psychology been a strong point among US policymakers.’

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Understanding, Russian History

  9 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source