Quotes About Psychology

the unconscious cannot be civilized.

Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God.

What Darwin did to nature, Sigmund Freud did to the self.

Setting boundaries on human behavior is the job of law, custom, and etiquette, not evolutionary psychology.

Language lets us learn about potential mates much more efficiently and interactively than any other species can.

Female orgasm seems poorly designed as a pair-bonding mechanism, but it is perfectly designed as a discriminatory system that separates the men from the boys.

Each trait that we consider sexually attractive already summarizes a huge amount of information about an individual's genes, body, and mind.

There is plenty of evidence from evolutionary psychology that men and women have physical, emotional and mental adaptations for short-term liaisons and adulterous affairs.

Every man who records his illusions is providing data for the genuinely scientific psychology which the world still waits for.

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

There's also way too much religion in the South to be consistent with good mental health.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider, it is hard to find rules without exception.

For religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed;and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

even when you negate a frame, you activate the frame.

Propaganda is another manipulative use of framing.

Can linguistic framing change the kind of person someone is? The answer seems to be yes, though possibly not in extreme cases.

Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

More than half of the matches are won in the dressing room for him. The guy he's playing against is sitting in the locker-room thinking 'oh my God, I'm going to play Rafa Nadal on clay in five sets, that's going to be painful.'

It's important to get under your opponent's skin and let them know that you are coming for them out in the middle. When you do that, half the battle's won!

With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.