Jacques Cousteau Quotes

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.

People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology.

Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.

Violent People: Are they the cause of violence or are their genes?

His career will greatly engage historians, if any good ones ever appear in America, but it will be of even more interest to psychologists.

The possibility of observing the developments of the psychical life of the child as natural phenomena and experimental reactions transforms the school itself in action into a kind of scientific laboratory for the psychogenetic study of man.

When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.

I've studied human psychology my whole life.

I like the human mind and how messed up it is.

I'm interested in what makes people tick, how they think, what makes them behave the way they do.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build

I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.