Quotes of Psychologist - somelinesforyou

“ My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. ”

- Karl Kraus

“ In an extensive reading of recent books by psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, and inspirationalists, I have discovered that they all suffer from one or more of these expression-complexes: italicizing, capitalizing, exclamation-pointing, multiple-interrogating, and itemizing… ”

- James Thurber

“ The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts. ”

- H.L. Mencken

“ A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. ”

- Anonymous

“ A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet. ”

- Max Walker

“ Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist. ”

- Unknown

“ A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. ”

- Unknown

“ Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally… ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own. ”

- W. H. Auden
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