Psychology Quote by C.G. Jung

“Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to inspire and…

— Geoffrey West

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately…

— Francis Galton

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

— Charlie Munger

Much research in psychology has been more concerned with how large groups of people behave than about the particular ways in which each individual…

— Jean Piaget

“is a collective emergent agglomeration resulting from nonlinear social and organizational interactions”

— Geoffrey West

“We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

— Franz Kafka

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to…

— Max Beerbohm

“Understanding men or ideas or movements, or the outlooks of individuals or groups, is not reducible to a sociological classification into types of behaviour…

— Isaiah Berlin

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

— Bernard Baruch

Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important…

— Alexander von Humboldt

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl