Quotes About Psychology

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

I think markets will never be efficient because of human nature.

A successful trader studies human nature and does the opposite of what the general public does.

All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology.

Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.