Psychologist Quotes

Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
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.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
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.
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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