Famous quotes by Psychologists

"People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives"

Albert Bandura, Psychologist

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person"

Alice Miller, Psychologist

"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment"

G. Stanley Hall, Psychologist

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work, but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"Education must be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them"

Jerome S. Bruner, Psychologist

"To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing"

Eric Berne, Psychologist

"In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection"

Carol Gilligan, Psychologist

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling, he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

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