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“Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner's manual for your own mind. It's a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?”

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Author:Daniel Goldstein

“Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.”

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Author:J. P. Guilford

“There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.”

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Author:Daniel Handler

“The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.”

Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel

“If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information.”

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Author:Claire Danes

“When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.”

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Book:A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Source: A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

“The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.”

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Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“I just trust my intuition taking into account the psychology of things. Therefore, I am not persuaded by facts, but by behaviors.”

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Author:Maria Karvouni

“Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.”

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Author:Michael Bassey Johnson

“The truth is life should know and believe something to move forward. But isn't it dangerous to know and believe lies?”

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Book:The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing

Source: The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing

“Something that looks as reasonable truth is difficult to fight. Not even with truth. People sometimes have to use reasonable lies to defend the truth. But I believe that if one is able to fight lies with truth and not with lies then one could experience the absolute justice in favor of one.”

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Book:The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing

Source: The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing