Personality Theory Quotes

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

I'm really into psychology, and I want to be a psych major.

I want to be a psychologist.

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.

The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.

I believe a lot about psychology, or I'd like to learn about it - I'm someone who likes to learn about everything.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

We've progressed well beyond the four humors in the two thousand-odd years since Hippocrates, but we still haven't satisfied the urge to discover ways of sorting people into personalities and types and, in so doing, predict how they might act in specific situations.

I studied psychology at university.

Personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention.

My background is in psychology - that's what my bachelor's degree is from, and my specialization.

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.