top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Psychologist
"Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn."
12
"I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do."
12
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
12
"5.57am and I'm finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn't get much easier."
12
"I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985."
12
"It will not always be easy, but it will always be beautiful."
12
"Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out."
12
"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."
11
"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."
11
"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."
11
"The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis."
11
"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."
11
"It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words."
11
"As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal."
11
"The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power."
11
"Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior."
11
"We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them."
11
"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."
11
"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."
11
"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization."
11
"A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him."
11
"The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness."
11
"The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances."
11
"However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white."
11
"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."
11
"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
11
"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death."
11
"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
11
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
11
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."
11
"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."
11
"It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence."
11
"PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction."
11
"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."
11
"The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization."
11
"What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?"
11
"I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war."
11
"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field."
11
"Many psychoanalysts refused to let me speak at their meetings. They were exceptionally vigorous because I had previously been an analyst and they were very angry at my flying the coop."
11
"The core of my personality consists of many selves."
11
"The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires."
11
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
11
"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"
11
"Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an houror two.This is your fairy. It ain't perfect and it ain't honey sweet with roses on the bed.It's real and raw and ugly at times. But this is your love. Don't throw it away searching for someone else's love. Don't be greedy. Instead, shelter it. Protect it. Capture every second of easy, pull through every storm of hardship. And when you can, look at him, lying next to you, trusting you not to harm him. Trusting you not to go. Be someone's someone for someone.Be that someone for him."
11
"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship."
11
"It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own."
11
"My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music."
11
bottom of page