Monday 1 May 2017

Psychology Sayings and Quotes



Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.    

Steven Pinker






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

Paul Valery





Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Mason Cooley





The chief difficulty for those who begin the study of scientific psychology is that all men indulge in popular psychology.    

Karl Friedrich Munzinger





A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter.    

Susan Sontag






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





The brain is wider than the sky.

Emily Dickinson





Great spirits have often overcome violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein





The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.    

William James





The happiness of of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius





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

Neale Donald Walsch





Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.    

Victor Frankl






But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'.    

Raymond Cattell





Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.

Wilhelm Wundt





It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.    

Francois de la Rochefoucauld





What you are will show in what you do.

Thomas Edison





The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.    

William James





Introspection is always retrospection.    

Sartre





Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.    

Franklin P. Adams





Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.

Robert Brault





It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

G.K. Chesterton





To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.    

Edward Thorndike





Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.    

Jean Piaget





No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.    

John Locke







Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.

Humphry Davy





All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.    

Arthur Schopenhauer





Learn one way; react. Learn many ways; understand.    

Tadeu Dias





When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.    

Plato





A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.    

Susan Sontag





Idleness is the parent of psychology.    

Friedrich Nietzsche

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