Quotes and Sayings About Psychology
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.
-- Abdul Kalam -
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
-- Abraham Maslow -
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.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.
-- Abraham Zaleznik -
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
-- Agatha Christie -
This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.
-- Al Arbour -
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre -
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Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
-- Albert BanduraSource : Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall
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Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.
-- Albert Camus -
Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.
-- Albert Camus -
Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.
-- Albert Camus -
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Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle, Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town and History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.
-- Albert GoldbarthSource : Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press
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Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.
-- Albert MemmiSource : Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press
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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Psychology is the most important factor in chess.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
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For my victory over Capablanca I am indebted primarily to my superiority in the field of psychology. Capablanca played, relying almost exclusively on his rich intuitive talent. But for the chess struggle nowadays one needs a subtle knowledge of human nature, an understanding of the opponent's psychology.
-- Alexander Alekhine -
Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.
-- Alexander ElderSource : Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.46, John Wiley & Sons
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Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management. These essentials are like three legs of a stool – remove one and the stool will fall, together with the person who sits on it.
-- Alexander ElderSource : Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons
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You must not let your opponent know how you feel.
-- Alexander Kotov -
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The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
-- Alfred Adler -
The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.
-- Alfred Adler -
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
-- Alison Gopnik -
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In joint scientific efforts extending over twenty years, initially in collaboration with J. C. Shaw at the RAND Corporation, and subsequently with numerous faculty and student colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University, they have made basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the psychology of human cognition, and list processing.
-- Allen Newell -
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.
-- Aloe BlaccSource : "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.
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Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.
-- Alva Noe -
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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott