Famous quotes by Psychologists

"One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series, this capacity of consciousness may be increased"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so impress them that immediately afterward they could voluntarily be reproduced"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Meanwhile, the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost, is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest"

Wilhelm Reich, Psychologist

"The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary"

Wilhelm Reich, Psychologist

"Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena"

Wilhelm Reich, Psychologist

"Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it"

Wilhelm Reich, Psychologist

"Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation"

Wilhelm Reich, Psychologist

"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely, to try and be all right oneself"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"My different personalities leave me in peace now"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"If I have a stupid day, everything looks wrong to me"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"I am no longer afraid to say anything"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"I am glad that I do not have any children"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"How can one know anything at all about people?"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... They are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Create around one, at least, a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

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