Psychologist Quotes

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
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.
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
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.
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.'
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.
It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.
It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.
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