Psychology Quotes - Page 5

• You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason

  Richard Bandler

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Utterance, Ethics, Action

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• must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

  Thomas Reid

  Thinking, Ethics, Action

  Thomas Reid (1827). “Essays on the powers of the human mind: An essay on quantity. An analysis of Aristotl's logic”, p.441

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• Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Past, Long

  Summary of Psychology

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• I don't go for this auto-cannibalism. Very damaging.

  Peter O'Toole

  Cannibalism

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• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fall, Mind, Sun

  Bartlett's Unfamiliar Quotations Leonard Louis Levinson

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• People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

  Gordon Allport

  Justice, Diversity, People

  Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.

  William Eckhardt

  Intelligent, Makeup, Emotional

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• A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex.

  S. N. Behrman

  Simple, Discovery, People

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• Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Neurosis, Cold, Made

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.58, BookBaby

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• There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.

  Carl Jung

  Said, Cases, Psychoanalysis

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• Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vices, Idleness

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• The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body.

  Carl Jung

  Body, Unions, Separation

  Factors Determining Human Behaviour

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• Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  People, Important, Way

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• It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

  Jean Piaget

  Inspirational, Education, Children

  Richard Isadore Evans, Jean Piaget (1973). “Dialogue with Jean Piaget”, Praeger Publishers

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• 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

  Taken, Logical, Structure

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• The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

  Jim Butcher

  People, Mind, Sanity

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.144, Penguin

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• Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Way, Conversations With God, Shows

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• What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

  Alice Miller

  Pain, Recovery, Addiction

  Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books

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• When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.

  Rudolf Dreikurs

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Children

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• I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

  Alison Gopnik

  Kids, Advice, And Love

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• Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

  "How to make stress your friend". The TED Interview, www.ted.com. June, 2013.

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• I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

  Dan Chaon

  Reading, Kids, Psychosis

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

  Brené Brown

  Change, Feelings, Guilt

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• The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Philosophy, Ideas, Medicine

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