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Quotes by Psychologist
"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."
90
"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
89
"If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does."
86
"The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large."
83
"Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it."
83
"Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals."
82
"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain."
81
"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization."
78
"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."
76
"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."
76
"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."
74
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
71
"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
71
"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
71
"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."
70
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
70
"The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."
70
"Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves."
70
"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."
69
"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
68
"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."
68
"But there is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites, hence it is necessary to discover the opposite to the attitude of the conscious mind."
66
"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."
66
"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"
66
"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."
65
"I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition."
65
"What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance."
65
"I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent."
64
"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."
64
"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken."
64
"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek."
64
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""
64
"Man absolutely cannot live by himself."
64
"The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well."
63
"Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality."
63
"Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the airby myself in the snowand I was not okay."
62
"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."
62
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
61
"I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977."
61
"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
61
"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."
61
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
61
"So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?"
61
"The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes while his failures on the other hand are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth but force him to change his views and methods."
60
"The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?"
60
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