Famous quotes by Psychologists

"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present-, or future-oriented"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization"

Frantz Fanon, Psychologist

"Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent"

Frantz Fanon, Psychologist

"Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we may believe its conception arbitrary"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, Black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Academic success depends on research and publications"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Writings scatter to the winds, blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

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