Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it"

M. Scott Peck, Psychologist

"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

"Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for"

Viktor E. Frankl, Psychologist

"Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge"

Claude Bernard, Psychologist

"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Depression is the inability to construct a future"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action"

David Seabury, Psychologist

"You possess a potent force that you either use or misuse hundreds of times every day"

J. Martin Kohe, Psychologist

"The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose"

J. Martin Kohe, Psychologist

"Let us choose to believe something good can happen"

J. Martin Kohe, Psychologist

"Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it"

Havelock Ellis, Psychologist

"Men are actually the weaker sex"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear"

George Weinberg, Psychologist

"There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other"

James J. Gibson, Psychologist

"The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term"

Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist

"If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter"

James M. Baldwin, Psychologist

"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

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