Famous quotes by Psychologists

"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"In conclusion, we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"If you do jot feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man, this type of intellect is found"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"Walt Disney was my great hero"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"The motif of death plays an important role: the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away"

Eric Berne, Psychologist

"A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses"

Eric Berne, Psychologist

"The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

Page 33 of 43

See the complete list of psychologist people