Famous quotes by Psychologists

"This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated"

Paul Watzlawick, 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

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

William Glasser, 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

"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born"

G. Stanley Hall, 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

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

Jerome S. Bruner, Psychologist

"All of us are much more human than otherwise"

Harry Stack Sullivan, 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

"Being an only child is a disease in itself"

G. Stanley Hall, 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

"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

"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

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

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

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

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm"

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

"Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same"

Wilhelm Reich, Psychologist

"It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean"

Anna Freud, 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

"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand"

Cesare Lombroso, Psychologist

"Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom"

Erik Erikson, Psychologist

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