Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it, without complaint, when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"If you can't do it, give up!"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual"

Sigmund Freud, 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

"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Man always dies before he is fully born"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"In love, the paradox occurs that two beings become one, and yet remain two"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

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