Kurt Lewin Quotes

The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

My mother certainly doesn't think I'm charming!

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.

Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

You are what you think.

Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.

Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.

Everybody has a different idea of love. One girl I know said, "I knew he loved me when de didn't come in my mouth.

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

That's what misbehavior is all about, just a little extra loving being asked for.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.

The sum of all your thoughts comprises your overall attitude.

You are what you think you are.

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

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.

The thing about That Guy Is a Gigolo,' Radar says, 'I mean, the thing about it as a game, is that in the end it reveals a lot more about the person doing the imagining than it does about the person being imagined.

Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.