Psychological Quotes - Page 4

It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily is he disturbed and put out of order.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

The psyche is a natural phenomenon. All aspects of the psyche, even those which seem pathological or destructive, actually serve the function of furthering our psychological development.

Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by three simple laws of nature. In fact, economists have 99 laws that capture 3 percent of behavior. Economics is a uniquely human endeavor.

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

So food is important part, not just in our physical well-being, but in our psychological well-being. The more chemicals that are in our food and the more outside of the way it is intended by nature, the more we are messing with things that we probably don't know the full effect of.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

The exterior image of a human being and the diverse circumstances that surround him are the exact result of his interior image and of his psychological processes.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.

I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Even the best of us have certain psychological mechanisms that can suddenly kick in and turn us into monsters.

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.