top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Psychologist
"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways."
2
"Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person."
2
"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
Fear,
2
"In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs."
2
"Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom."
2
"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
2
"I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way."
2
"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge."
2
"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
2
"This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man."
2
"Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years."
2
"No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes."
2
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
2
"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own."
2
"Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear."
2
"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."
2
"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."
2
"God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection."
2
"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
2
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
2
"Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'"
2
"Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do."
2
"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic."
2
"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."
2
"The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me."
2
"We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive."
2
"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."
2
"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."
2
"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
2
"The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology."
2
"I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside.After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save."
2
"Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that."
2
"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility."
2
"Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people not to live without it."
2
"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."
2
"Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along."
2
"Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious."
2
"I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert."
2
"From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat."
Fear,
2
"Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life."
2
"I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason."
2
"One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking."
2
"Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past."
2
"It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade."
2
"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action."
2
"Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe."
2
"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again."
2
bottom of page