Famous quotes by Psychologists

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Quotes from psychologists illuminate the inner workings of mind and behavior, offering concise insights shaped by research, clinical experience, and compassionate observation. The voices represented span classic thinkers and contemporary practitioners, touching on learning, emotion, identity, relationships, resilience, and the ethics of care. Whether you are curious about the science of cognition or seeking everyday wisdom for growth and well-being, these reflections invite thoughtful consideration and gentle challenge, encouraging a deeper understanding of ourselves and others.

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

Abraham Maslow

"What is to give light must endure burning"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"Anatomy is destiny"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"The strengthening of behavior which results from reinforcement is appropriately called 'conditioning'. In operant conditioning, we 'strengthen' an operant in the sense of making a response more probable or, in actual fact, more frequent"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

Thomas Szasz

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment"

Ernest Rutherford, Psychologist

Ernest Rutherford

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"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"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

Warren G. Bennis

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"

Ernest Rutherford, Psychologist

Ernest Rutherford

"To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides"

David Viscott, Psychologist

David Viscott

"The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

Wilhelm Wundt

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth"

Helene Deutsch, Psychologist

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"What's done to children, they will do to society"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"You can be right or you can be happy"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

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