Psychologists Quotes

96 Psychologists quotes by 84 unique authors

Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The… — Rajneesh
Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they… — Wilhelm Wundt
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent… — Brock Chisholm
...the pretense is made, as it has been made in relation to the finding of any extension of truth, that to do away with right… — Brock Chisholm
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in… — Cyril Burt
It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-observant",… — Gaston Bachelard
Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional fluctuations are a… — Tarek Saab
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments… — Garrison Keillor
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years.… — Paul Tough
Most psychologists treat the mind as disembodied, a phenomenon with little or no connection to the physical body. Conversely, physicians treat the body with no… — Candace Pert
You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right. — Isabel Briggs Myers
How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes… — Matt Ridley
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular… — Naomi Weisstein
There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt theory tries to… — Max Wertheimer
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur"Psychologists tell us that money is a satisfier, not… — John Baldoni
When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways… — Leonard Mlodinow
The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too… — Dion Fortune
Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it. — Harry Hooton
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of… — Jared Diamond
On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon. Jeanne is the… — Claude Chabrol
If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.' — Robert A. Heinlein
One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite… — Martin Seligman
My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because… — Richard Griffiths
Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. — Robert Breault

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