Famous quotes by Psychologists

"For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white"

Frantz Fanon, Psychologist

"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future, then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help"

William Glasser, 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"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental, as we are accustomed to believe"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold"

William Moulton Marston, Psychologist

"Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"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"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself"

Jerome S. Bruner, 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

"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"All of us are much more human than otherwise"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"Being an only child is a disease in itself"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

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