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Quotes About Psychology

I studied psychology for a couple of years as a personal hobby, so you start learning about people and listening to your intuition, like when you you're feeling that people are not being entirely straight with you.
~ Afrojack
I've studied human psychology my whole life.
~ Betty Buckley
I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.
~ Berglind Icey
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
I studied psychology at university.
~ Yasmine Hamdan
I did plays because I liked plays. I studied psychology because I was fascinated by the subject, and I hope to keep doing films because I love the medium.
~ Jim Sarbh
I have studied Freud and that kind of thing. I just never thought I would need it.
~ Margaret Trudeau
Schools receive 12% more per student for those doing media studies or psychology than they do for those doing maths. You could change that around, made a premium on doing maths.
~ Liz Truss
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
~ Edward Thorndike
Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
~ Pamela Meyer
I'm a transactional lawyer, which involves a lot of negotiation. If nothing else, that's given me a good eye for human motivation and frequent case studies in peculiar psychological quirks. I think that's served me fairly well as a writer.
~ Paul S. Kemp
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed.
~ Robert Jay Lifton
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
~ Mercy Otis Warren
I went to the London School of Economics to study sociology and psychology on a serviceman's grant.
~ Ron Moody
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
~ Edward Thorndike
I assume that the proper study of interaction is not the individual and his psychology, but rather the syntactical relations among the acts of different persons mutually present to another.
~ Erving Goffman
I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
~ T Bone Burnett
Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.
~ Amy Smart
Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.
~ Rich Lowry
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
~ Goldwin Smith
If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology.
~ Shanina Shaik
I've been studying the psychology of online connectivity for more than 30 years.
~ Sherry Turkle
I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.
~ Kathryn Prescott