Psychology Quotes - Page 10

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

Realizing that our actions, feelings and behaviour are the result of our own images and beliefs gives us the level that psychology has always needed for changing personality.

I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system

The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life.

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.

Age is not based on chronology, but psychology.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

My most difficult opponent is myself. When I am playing I often involuntarily make a world champion out of a candidate master.