Psychologist Quotes

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.
I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.
I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four.
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
What the joke displays is a switch in perception. This is important in changing the way we think.
A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.
He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
I am what survives of me.
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.
Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.
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