Psychology Quotes - Page 2

When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations or his psychological health... We must find out what psychology might be if it could free itself from the stultifying effects of limited, pessimistic and stingy preoccupations with human nature.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

More may have been learned about the brain and the mind in the 1990s - the so-called decade of the brain - than during the entire previous history of psychology and neuroscience.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

Within psychology and neuroscience, some new and rigorous experimental paradigms for studying consciousness have helped it begin to overcome the stigma that has been attached to the topic for most of this century.

The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being

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

Psychology is the most important factor in chess.

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective and the subjective, are actually united, when the tormenting conflicts or contradictions between my consciousness and my body will have been factually resolved or discarded.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.