Famous quotes by Psychologists

"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"'Charm,' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength, just as strength is a man's charm"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"Discipline is wisdom, and vice versa"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"Ultimately love is everything"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

M. Scott Peck

"Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy, and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"Science does not permit exceptions"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective reality of things, will be hidden from him forever, and that he can only know relations"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"Experimentation is an active science"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

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