Quotes About Psychology

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.

Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

Angelo, " he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

People don't smile because they're happy. They're happy because they smile.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

People also smile when they are miserable.

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

If you smile, even if you're feeling bad, the action of the muscles will trick your brain into thinking you're happy

A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.

...if you smile for no reason at all you will actually start to feel happy

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.