Quotes of Psychology - somelinesforyou

“ A vigorous five mile walk will do more good for an unhappy, but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ”

- Paul Dudley White

“ I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology. ”

- Robert Sternberg

“ There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ Idleness is the parent of psychology. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. ”

- Dame Agatha Christie

“ The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ The intellect is always fooled by the heart. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ I am working toward a psychology of the soul that is based on a psychology of image. ”

- James Hillman

“ Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives… ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good. ”

- Felix Adler

“ Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. ”

- Jean Piaget

“ The Iowa Psychology Department was not Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. It was, indeed, an intellectually lively and demanding place where major theoretical issues were pursued with a passion. It was refreshingly free of colorless eclecticism. ”

- Albert Bandura

“ I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth. ”

- River Phoenix

“ Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. ”

- Ovid

“ A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ”

- Unknown

“ A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. ”

- Unknown

“ When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. ”

- Plato

“ Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities. ”

- Unknown

“ The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best. ”

- Paul Valery

“ The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's. ”

- Goodman Ace

“ Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ”

- Karen Horney

“ Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. ”

- Vladimir Nabokov

“ People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding. ”

- Wilhelm Stekel

“ No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing. ”

- Anton Chekhov

“ Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. ”

- Marianne Moore

“ Sensation tell us a thing is.Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.Feeling tells us what this thing is to us. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung
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