Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is, an outside observer"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"The development of the meaning attaching to the personal self, the conscious being, is the subject matter of the history of psychology"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals, including man"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: aims, materials, means and methods"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Human folk are, as a matter of fact, eager to find intelligence in animals"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Amongst the minds of animals, that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"In Socrates' thought, the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature, it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"The unconscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

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