Philosophers and psychologists have long puzzled over the question of how we know as much as we do despite our limited experiences.… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Having kids has proven to be this amazing - for me, this amazing source of ideas of anecdotes, of examples, I can… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder… — Ian Brennan Copy Share Image
The reason I'm a psychologist is based in part on my telephone routines. Much of my humor comes out of reaction to… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of… — I. King Jordan Copy Share Image
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
“But even drugged to the gills, I remained filled with dread about the impending book tour, so I went also to a… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The physical basis for sociopathy is approximately 50 percent inheritable, which sounds more dramatic than it probably is, because most personality characteristics… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Wise, compassionate and accessible, David Benner's The Gift of Being Yourself is truly a gift to the dedicated seeker. The author draws… — Margaret Guenther Copy Share Image
I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that… — Adrian Peterson Copy Share Image
My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
There's something artistic about skating. A psychologist could tell you exactly why that is, but I think there's something much more expressive… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
A friend, who's a psychologist, told me about a patient once: a woman who was well educated, had a good job, a… — Renata Salecl Copy Share Image
There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the… — Kurt Busch Copy Share Image
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
As Harvard developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, who has studied Bridgewater, says, in most work places everyone is working two jobs. The first… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
There are instances when we are like horses, we psychologists, and grow restless: we see our own shadow wavering up and down… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar,… — Kevin Gates Copy Share Image
“As a child I felt mostly alone. Now, having been trained as a psychologist, I am still, because I know things and… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist;… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional… — Tarek Saab Copy Share Image
With climate change, of course there are things to grieve. I certainly grieved that the vision that I had for my life,… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
Characters in Hollywood movies encounter a lot of car chases. Characters in novels rarely wash their hands or do their laundry. And… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
