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Quotes About Psychology

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
~ Edward Thorndike
Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.
~ Jacque Fresco
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
~ William James
The art of reading physical tells isn't an exact science.
~ Daniel Negreanu
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The best players have the mental advantage throughout the league.
~ Jason Kidd
We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?
~ Poul Anderson
I always liked the 'Mad Men' philosophy where people don't really change.
~ Paul Rust
War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers.
~ Richard Engel
I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.
~ Guy Pearce
It's very easy on social media to manipulate people's emotions, to manipulate their belief systems.
~ Jemele Hill
The children of the lie use emotions to manipulate.
~ Jesse Lee Peterson
People internalise marketing.
~ Frankie Boyle
Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.
~ Alain de Botton
Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.
~ Diane Ackerman
It's not enough to do research from a distance. It's by living beside animals that you learn their behavior and psychology.
~ Diane Ackerman
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~ Diane Ackerman
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~ Diane Ackerman
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Hervey Cleckley, M.D., from The Mask of Sanity
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Next came the thesis by Hillman's late friend, Evangelos Christou. In his introduction to Logos of the Soul, Hillman would write about how psychotherapy's legitimacy was "based on the soul" and the failure to make this clear "has resulted in psychologies which are bastard sciences and degenerate philosophies." Christou's was "a document humain attesting to the mystery of the soul.
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How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?
~ Didier Eribon