4,465 Quotes About Psychology

I'd always been interested in psychology.

The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.

The good news is that, at least in economics, I've seen movement away from its overemphasis on mathematical models of purely rational behavior to a more eclectic and commonsense approach: research that is, among other things, more respectful of insights from psychology.

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine.