Psychologist Quotes: Insights and Wisdom from the Minds of Mental Health...

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse"

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychologist

"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Life itself still remains a very effective therapist"

Karen Horney, Psychologist

"The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization"

Karen Horney, Psychologist

"Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"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"

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychologist

"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it"

David C. McClelland, Psychologist

"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"Well it's a drastic procedure by your standards and mine, but for the people who are living in desperation perhaps the best way to understand it is that it seems no more drastic to them than circumcision"

John Money, Psychologist

"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away"

Eric Berne, Psychologist

"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"

Erik H. Erikson, Psychologist

"I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence"

David Viscott, Psychologist

"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

"Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge"

Fritz Perls, Psychologist

"Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"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"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

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