Famous quotes by Psychologists

"The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Follow that will and that way, which experience confirms to be your own"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination?"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"A "scream" is always just that - a noise and not music"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess!"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is, "What does a woman want?""

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... It constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being!"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

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