Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"During the earliest stages, the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning"

Jean Piaget, 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

"Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt, but in spite of doubt"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"One does not become fully human, painlessly"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness"

Rollo May, Psychologist

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