Famous quotes by Psychologists

"Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

"In a person who is open to experience, each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

"Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"We may define therapy as a search for value"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication"

Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"You can't choose up sides on a round world"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside!"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

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