Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me"

Frantz Fanon, Psychologist

"What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"We're all here at the same time, and we should celebrate that"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"No man wants to feel that he's there because of his woman's biological clock, or because he's filling a job opening for husband or significant other"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"Interestingly, the best way to promote intimacy is to demand it"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"I try not to deal with people's hostility, though I must if they have something I need from them, as the professors did at Columbia or my landlord did"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"I didn't grow up with any concept of people being deviants unless they mistreated others"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

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