Quotes About Psychology

Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

I think the novel, its business is the investigation of human nature.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave more wickedly than it obviously does.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.

Nature of Human is neither good nor bad, it is simply a fusion of primitive instinctual urges and modern humane conscience.

Human nature is so complicated. Those who have little, want a lot. Those who have a lot, think others have more. Those who lose, blame others for the loss.

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

The biggest challenge for human mind is human mind.

What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.