Top 290 Psychology Quotes

The Christ-symbol is of the greatest importance for psychology in so far as it is perhaps the most highly developed and differentiated symbol of the self, apart from the figure of the Buddha.
Carl Jung
I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It’s the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past – your favourite architect, your favourite song – you take it all with you.
Raf Simons
I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring.
Randy Orton
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
Carl Jung
I think it’s a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don’t have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.
Michael Haneke
A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.
Stanley Smith Stevens
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.
Muhammad Iqbal
I’m really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.
Brittany Snow
My first semester of college, I’m going to sociology and English and psychology, and all I cared about was getting home and preparing for whatever audition I had.
Dylan O’Brien
The connection between psychology, mythology, and literature is as important as the connection between psychology and biology and the hard sciences.
Jordan Peterson
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.
Wilhelm Wundt
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
Wilhelm Wundt
Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican cul

Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn’t happen with Puerto Ricans, because you’re a commonwealth.
Lela Loren
Psychology is important but motivation is something that if you don’t have it inside then you can’t provide it.
Diego Simeone
When you say ‘no’ and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.
Gail Bradbrook
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books – the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.
Anthony Browne
For me, it’s very easy to write a horror movie that’s just a succession of scary sequences, but it’s hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.
Ehren Kruger
A goalkeeping unit is different from outfield; the psychology is different.
Robert Green
Psychology is simply great because it helps you better understand all kinds of people.
Adrienne C. Moore
Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a lot of actors because in a weird way, psychology and acting kind of seem interwoven.
Megan Park
On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can’t be figuring things out on the day.
Rami Malek
The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology.
James Mark Baldwin
I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.
Holly Willoughby
With ‘Before We Die,’ the psychology of the characters and their relationships with one another was key.
Lesley Sharp
I got a degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and can most definitely sing the greatest college fight song of all time.
Sam Mikulak
In cricket, there is a lot of psychology in the game, especially if you are watching people who are not top-class.
Garfield Sobers
The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.
Abraham Maslow
We get letters a few times a year from people that write papers on the show. You know, like, ‘Oh, my psychology or my cultural studies class – this is my term paper.’ Somebody wrote it as their thesis, about the social experiment of the show, because the show is a reflection of what’s going on in culture.
James Murray
Thanos came to me while I was taking a psychology class in college after coming out of the service; the ol’ Thanos/Eros concept.
Jim Starlin
Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They’ve discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn’t exist.
Dario Argento
Any skills that I have, I couldn’t really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine – the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.
Ian Harding
I’m 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in ‘CR Fashion Book’ and ‘Sports Illustrated’ came out. It was crazy!
Gigi Hadid
In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don’t have to be a Jedi to manipulate people’s attention.
Cass Sunstein
The Simpsons has shaped my psychology to a degree one would usually attribute to a parent, or a particularly devout upbringing. I am a zealot.
Ash Sarkar
I studied psychology in school, and I learned how to understand people’s feelings, how to get along with people and relate to people.
Vittoria Ceretti
Liberals have invented whole college majors – psychology, sociology and women’s studies – to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault.
P. J. O’Rourke
A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
Ariel Gore
I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people – how they act and such.
Dane Cook
At Gallaudet, deafness isn’t an issue. You don’t even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn’t get the same access.
I. King Jordan
In my own opinion, psychology in football is far more important than anyone believes, including the coaches.
Ara Parseghian
By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
Jodie Foster
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis
I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology.
Joely Fisher
I started to study psychology but had to stop when I go

I started to study psychology but had to stop when I got into the first team.
Divock Origi
I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.
Hugo Weaving
Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the sociology they are likely to need for their decisions. I don’t think they are right, but that’s the way it is.
Daniel Kahneman
I’m interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
Hanif Kureishi
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
George Herbert Mead
The Soviet government sprouted and grew out of the habits, the psychology, and the condition of the Russian people. It fitted them. They understand it.
Lincoln Steffens
My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.
Herbert A. Simon
For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I’ve always been interested in psychology and how people’s minds operate. But I’m able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.
Rumer Willis
I’d always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.
Bob Paisley
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
Octavio Paz
Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
Tariq Ramadan
There’s so many great things I learned at Mizzou. I took a sports psychology class. It was kind of eye-opening on certain different ways to look at things.
Max Scherzer
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
Wilhelm Wundt
I suppose you could say that I majored in men and minored in psychology.
Eileen Ford
Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels – from psychology to physiology.
Michael Rosbash