Top 218 Psychologists Quotes & Sayings

I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a psychological approach, I guess.

Beautiful people are always with us, as evolutionary psychologists and a trip to the news-stand confirm.

One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

Under Freud's influence, many ambitious biographers - not to mention psychologists, philosophers, and historians - have sought answers in their subject's childhood.

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

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

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.

I don't think the police, even if we train them, can be, you know, as good as psychologists and psychiatrists and others knowing what is happening to somebody. So we've got to have a more coherent, comprehensive approach.

Psychologists are men with nothing in their own minds, searching in the minds of others for an idea-in order to kill it.

My parents are psychologists. My father is a specialist with schizophrenia and my mother works with mostly children.

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists.

Resilience presents a challenge for psychologists. Whether you can be said to have it or not largely depends not on any particular psychological test but on the way your life unfolds.

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.

Choosing a system is no longer enough, coaches have to be psychologists and motivational leaders too.

Many clubs use sports psychologists today. But you have to work with a mental coach for months. You can't just start when you are in the World Cup.

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my posture was all wrong.

I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

What I really love about philosophers and psychologists is that they sound smart.

If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists.... Most of these people are incapable of communicating their knowledge, but those who can communicate it are novelists. They are good novelists precisely because they are good psychologists.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.

Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'

Shyness is inherently uncomfortable; introversion is not. The traits do overlap, though psychologists debate to what degree.

Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim.

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

...feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.

If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'

Happy people are poor psychologists.

All our wives are experimental psychologists.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.

My book 'Things Get Better' has normalised the idea that it's OK to fail and it's OK to seek professional help from psychologists.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.

Many people have trouble sticking to their resolutions, and there is a simple scientific explanation for this. In 1987, a team of psychologists conducted a study in which they monitored the New Year's resolutions of 275 people. After one week the psychologists found that 92 percent of the people were keeping their resolutions; after two weeks we have no idea what happened because the psychologists had quit monitoring.

The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.