Home / Topics / Psychology Quotes

Psychology Quotes

Browse 5859 quotes about Psychology.

Psychology Quotes

“Fortunately, there are old terrors and powers that religion no longer can exercise so effectively as it did only a few score years ago. But the atmosphere and the attitude of bigotry remain. If religion cannot ordinarily invoke the armed force of law to punish heretics, it still plays upon the psychology of fear and predominantly its influence is to frighten men and distort their views and poison every process of their reasoning.”

Ifs Men Years Stills Play Law Force Process Views Attitude Psychology Atheism Influence Exercise Years Ago Terror Atmosphere Poison Reasoning Score Bigotry Heretic Armed Forces Invoke

Author:E. Haldeman-Julius

“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.”

“A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.”

Made Said Names Black Interest Emotion Morning Psychology Exercise Angry Confusion Analysis Boredom Professors Snakes Pencils Amusement Notebook Psycho Lurking

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.”

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“Man was destined for society. His morality therefore was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong merely relative to this. This sense is as much a part of his nature as the sense of hearing, seeing, feeling; it is the true foundation of morality... The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or less degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may any particular limb of the body.”

“Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.”

People Acting Study Psychology Discipline Exercise Incredibles Working It Linked

Author:Claire Danes

“When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.”

Done Use Order Term Psychology Exercise Drug Band Denial Midst Break Up Work Done Rumours Drug Use Christine

Author:Lindsey Buckingham

“Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a fistfight. Ultimately, trading is an exercise in self-mastery and endurance.”

Self Challenges Psychology Exercise Intellectual Claims Endurance Mastery Trading Self Mastery Intrigued Traders

Book:The Mathematics of Money Management: Risk Analysis Techniques for Traders

Source: The Mathematics of Money Management: Risk Analysis Techniques for Traders

“Don't get so stuck in your ways that you can't change.”

Way Psychology Exercise Stuck Can't Change

Author:Sam Walton

“Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.”

Way Problem Ability Views Practice Psychology Exercise Tradition Outsiders Intuitive

Author:John P. Kotter

“In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.”

Ifs May Action Animal Cases Psychology Higher Exercise Scales Psychological Outcomes Faculty

Author:C. Lloyd Morgan

“All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.”

Source: Coming Home to the Pleistocene

“In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.”

Simple Knowledge Psychology Cutting Evolution Exercise Concepts Function Increase Backgrounds Delay Abstraction Conquest Constructive

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“Exercise your mind and your thoughts will run until you are exhausted.”

Mind School Education Learning Psychology Exercise Thoughts Quote Of The Day Anthony T Hincks The Prophet Avocatorium

Author:Anthony T. Hincks