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Quotes by Psychologist
"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
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"As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity."
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"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
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"The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard."
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"Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected."
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"I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime."
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"It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it."
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"Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first."
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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
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"The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps."
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"The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life."
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"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us."
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"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
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"In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore."
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."
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"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one."
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"But the cure for most obstacles is, Be decisive."
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"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."
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"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
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"We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them."
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"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life."
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"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
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"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization."
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"What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now."
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"The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism."
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"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
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"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person."
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"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."
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"My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college."
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"We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms."
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"The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods."
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"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative."
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"Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind."
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"Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable."
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"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."
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"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
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"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."
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"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts."
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"The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices."
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"If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement."
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"Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference."
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"Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
Love,
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"It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble."
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery."
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