Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

William James

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

Richard Dawkins

Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.

Robert Sternberg

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.

Robert Sternberg

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

Willard Van Orman Quine

Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.

Will Self

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.

Warren Farrell

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.

Wilhelm Wundt

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

Richard Dawkins

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varying replicators. The watchmaker is blind

Rebecca West

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

William James

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

Richard Louv

Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

Richard M. Nixon

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not...

Richard Dawkins

The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it.

Richard Dawkins

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Richard Dawkins

In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive.

Robert Nozick

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

Carl Jung

Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.

Antoni Gaudi

Nothing is invented, for it's written in nature first.

Rob Zombie

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes we can only find ourselves by first losing ourselves.

Richard Paul Evans

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Richard John Neuhaus

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Russell Baker

Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

Russell Brand

Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.

Umberto Eco

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.