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I deal with the human psychology and evil. They are my twin issues. -- Greg Iles
Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans. -- Virginia Postrel
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Walt Disney was a master of the human psychology. His sense of timing, sense of speed. In a sense, those cartoons are like Rorschach tests. -- Twyla Tharp
In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. -- David Horowitz
Every ideology is contrary to human psychology. -- Albert Camus
To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance. -- Aldous Huxley
I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics. -- Dale Jamieson
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. -- Lin Yutang
The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness. -- Naum Gabo
If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology. -- D. H. Lawrence
In practice, socialism didnt work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. -- David Horowitz
The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a real fact about human psychology. (p. 220) -- Steven Pinker
The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs. -- George F. Kennan
Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we are not motivated in any way to do. In other words, I'm an "internalist" about morality. -- Dale Jamieson
Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology, as with many of the stories. Anyways, that's just an example of one of the most wicked women in the Nights. -- Marina Warner
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. -- Alfred North Whitehead
To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness. -- William Pickens
Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations. -- Steven Novella
To cheapen the lives of any group of men [or women], cheapens the lives of all men [and women], even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness. -- William Pickens
Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo. -- Celia Green
Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you. -- Stacy London
A lot of the things that involve power on the highest levels sometimes involve the darker side of human psychology. People can be very passive aggressive or they can be aggressive and they can conceal their intentions. There's this world that exists that nobody writes about or describes it's like a dirty little secret or taboo. -- Robert Greene
I enjoy dating. I love first dates. I think they're incredibly fascinating studies in human psychology. When you sit down across from someone on a first date and things are going alright, you talk objectives. We want to win each other over, so how do you win someone over? You have to put the best foot forward. -- Chris Pine
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. -- Mason Cooley
I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people. -- Berglind Icey
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. -- Steven Pinker
I think acting and psychology are both looking at what makes human beings tick. I've always found that fascinating. -- Courtney Gains
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings. -- Martin Freeman
Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology. -- Evan Davis
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. -- Martin Seligman
The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology. -- Edward Thorndike
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life. -- Wilhelm Wundt
If I hadn't been an actress, I was thinking seriously about going into psychology. It's just really what I'm interested in: the human psyche and how we process information. -- Claire Danes
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. -- Steven Pinker
I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs. -- Roger Bannister
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings. -- Steven Pinker
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers. -- Niall Ferguson
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account. -- Ruth Rendell
It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire. -- Richard Dawkins
I think psychology would be an easy transition and figuring out the human mind somehow. -- Wilmer Valderrama
I've found that contemporary psychology enrages me with its simplistic ideas of human life, and also its emptiness. -- James Hillman
you can't read Human mind by #Psychology... you can read their mind by talking with them at night.. -- Self_Thought
Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion! -- Daniel Dennett
It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought. -- Napoleon Hill
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire. -- Bertrand Russell
The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else. -- Celia Green
Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God. -- Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Psychology either tends to glorify human beings or trivialize them, leaving out the complexity of the human soul and the demands of God." -- Gene Edward Veith Jr.
The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body. -- Carl Jung
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology -- Noam Chomsky
Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor. -- Crystal Reed
For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival. -- Warren Farrell
The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality. You're living the moment. -- Andy Serkis
Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring -- Claude C. Hopkins

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