Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness"

Wilhelm Reich, Psychologist

"Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without"

James C. Dobson, Psychologist

"A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical"

Juliet Mitchell, Psychologist

"I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care"

Joyce Brothers, Psychologist

"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that's necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"What is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa?"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"Where id was, there ego shall be"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

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