Psychology Quotes - Page 19

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.

One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious strategist – on the premises of Russian history. Understanding US values and psychology are not his strong suits. Nor has understanding Russian history and psychology been a strong point among US policymakers.’

The art of clinical diagnosis lies in the ability to ask the right questions.

In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.

I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

We all have a dark side, and we have to confront our dark side. That's pop American psychology.

It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.

The way that I see astrology is as a repository of thought and psychology. A system we've created as a culture as way to make things mean things.

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.

Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience.

Psychology doesn't address the soul; that's something else.

The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.

I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

I would love for the world to have a dog psychology center everywhere.