Psychologist Quotes

176 Psychologist quotes by 152 unique authors

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves… — Ivan Turgenev
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory. — Andrew Weil
All that self-control stuff, I tried all that stuff from analysts. I went everywhere to these guys, every kind of anger-management, psychologist, psychiatrist. 'Get rid… — Harvey Weinstein
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated. — A. N. Wilson
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian… — Philip Zimbardo
Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm. — Charles Jencks
I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap:… — Isabel Allende
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of… — Oscar Wilde
Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage. — Daniel Gilbert
My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off. — Meg Cabot
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a… — Frank McCourt
You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction. — Cassandra Clare
The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists… — Robert Anton Wilson
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable.… — H. L. Mencken
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't… — Sidney Poitier
My mother finally took me to a child psychologist, who knew exactly what I was, but she just couldn’t accept it and kept trying to… — Charlaine Harris
Achievement is talent plus preparation. The problem with this view is that the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the… — Malcolm Gladwell
How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his… — Jonah Lehrer
But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason… — William James
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior… — Terry McMillan
The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a… — Daniel Kahneman
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain,… — MacDonald Harris
The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back… — Susan Cain

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