Famous quotes by Psychologists

"A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work"

Anna Freud, Psychologist

"History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art"

Jerome Bruner, Psychologist

"The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness"

Jerome Bruner, Psychologist

"We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food, even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

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