Analysis Quote by Oscar Wilde

My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

— Amy Ray

“Analysis is good as a tool of enlightenment and civilization--to the extent that it shakes stupid preconceptions, quashes natural biases, and undermines authority. Good,…

— Thomas Mann

The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings.

— John Stuart Mill

The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

— Sigmund Freud

Most people make their choices predicated upon a feeling because analysis really isn't that good a tool.

— Frederick Lenz

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't…

— James Hillman

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

— David Hume

Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other…

— Sigmund Freud

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

— Steven Pinker

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

— Robert James Waller