Psychology Quotes - Page 40

• The fork is the most powerful tool ever placed in our hands.

  John Robbins

  Powerful, Philosophy, Hands

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• It is also possible to say precisely why. Truth seduces us very easily into a kind of joy of possession: I have comprehended this and that, learned it, understood it. Knowledge is power. I am therefore more than the other man who does not know this and that. I have greater possibilities and also greater temptations. Anyone who deals with truth - as we theologians certainly do - succumbs all too easily to the psychology of the possessor. But love is the opposite of the will to possess. It is self-giving. It boasteth not itself, but humbleth itself.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Love Is, Men, Opposites

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• On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics . It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Weather, Gold, Problem

  "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1985.

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• Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

  John Dewey

  Men, Medicine, Atheism

  The Public and Its Problems Ch. 5

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• Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

  Richard Dawkins

  Desire, Belief, Tendencies

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.

  Richard Dawkins

  Strong, Couple, Independent

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Years, Brain, Experts

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• I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

  Molly Quinn

  Thinking, Knowing, Ties

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.

  Stacy London

  Fashion, Hands, Play

  "Q&A: Stacy London tells 'The Truth About Style'". Interview with Jillian Singh, blog.sfgate.com. October 9, 2012.

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• Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

  Franz Kafka

  Reflection, World, Earth

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic .

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Wine, Men, Optics

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.408, Courier Corporation

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• The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.

  Hannah Arendt

  Differences, Body, Modern

  "The Life of the Mind" by Hannah Arendt, New York, Harcourt, (pp. 34-35), 1978.

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• What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system . . . a set of qualities, however, whose merit lay only in a psychology of non-calculative, non-competitive disinterestedness, truthfulness, courage, and generosity fostered by good education, minimum economic stress, and assumed position, AND JUST AS ACHIEVABLE THROUGH SOCIALISM AS THROUGH ARISTOCRACY.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Stress, Personal Qualities, Generosity

  Letter to C.L. Moore (c. mid-October 1936), in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 566), 1996.

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• The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.

  Naomi Weisstein

  Should Have, People, Personality

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• I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.

  Gloria Estefan

  Children, College, Psychologist

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• The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.

  William James

  Soul, Unity, Needs

  William James (1984). “Psychology, Briefer Course”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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• The sexual life of adult women is a "dark continent" for psychology.

  Sigmund Freud

  Women, Dark, Adults

  The Question of Lay Analysis pt. 4 (1926)

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• Children?have no use for psychology.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Use

  1978 Speech on receiving his Nobel prize.

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• I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.

  Jean Piaget

  Moments, Boundaries, Psychological

  Jean-Claude Bringuier, Jean Piaget (1989). “Conversations with Jean Piaget”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.

  Jean Piaget

  Religious, Mean, Animal

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual person thinks... too statistical. I find this disappointing because, in my view of the history of psychology, far more was learned, for example, when Jean Piaget spent several years observing the ways that three children developed, or when Sigmund Freud took several years to examine the thinking of a rather small number of patients.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Thinking, Small Numbers

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• In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both orga­nismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a "hunger for wholeness". Organismic biology, Gestalt psychology, ecology, and, later on, general systems theory all grew out of this holistic zeitgeist.

  Fritjof Capra

  Intellectual, Culture, Movement

  "The Web of Life". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1996.

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• Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world?

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Men, World, Distrust

  Rudolf Arnheim (1990). “Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology was Protestant and bourgeois, and whose politics were petty-capitalist rather than traditionalist, had no reason to share the social outlook of the rural classes of Europe. In Europe land was limited and dear, while labor was abundant and relatively cheap; in America the ratio between land and labor was inverted.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Europe, Land, Class

  "The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R". Book by Richard Hofstadter, Chapter I, part II, p. 44, 1955.

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• For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

  Warren Farrell

  Survival, Firsts, Intimacy

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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