Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses"

Cesare Lombroso, Psychologist

"Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up"

James C. Dobson, Psychologist

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities"

Cesare Lombroso, Psychologist

"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics"

Cesare Lombroso, Psychologist

"The best proof of love is trust"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'"

Cesare Lombroso, Psychologist

"I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way"

Robert Johnson, Psychologist

"Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism"

Jerome Bruner, Psychologist

"You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"It's very hard to know what wisdom is"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?"

James Hillman, Psychologist

"We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada, so I went to school in several places"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e., as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology, we can demonstrate at any time, almost all phenomena of digestion, without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

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