Quotes:Listen to the Psychologists

Quotes: Listen to the Psychologists

My friend… care for your psyche, and… make it as good as possible… know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves, but otherwise we never shall.                                                         -Socrates

Truth is arrived at by the painstaking process of eliminating the untrue.                                                             -Sir Arthur Doyle

· The interaction of heredity and environment is so extensive that to ask which is more important, nature or nurture, is like asking which is more important to a rectangle, height or width.                                                                                                                                                              -William Greenough

·     The setting sun, and music at close, as the last taste of sweet, is sweetest last, writ in remembrance more than things long past.                                                                                                           -Williams Shakespeare

·   How the brain organizes and interprets sensory information to give it meaning is a little miracle that scientists are still trying to solve.                                                                                                        -Alice O’ Tools

· The effective management of human behaviour is jeopardized when we appeal to feelings and ideas in the explanation of behaviour. In doing so, we neglect useful environmental contingencies.                   - B. F. Skinner

·         I come onto the fields and spacious palaces of my memory, where are treasures of countless images of things of every manner.                                                                   -St. Augustine

·         Of all states of consciousness, none raises more questions than the hypnotic state. Once associated with the bizarre and the occult, hypnosis has now become the subject of rigorous scientific investigation.                                                                                                                     -Ernest Hilgard

·Things without remedy must be without regard                                                                                                            -Williams Shakespeare

·   Memory is a central part of the brain’s attempt to make sense of experience and tell coherent stories about it. Yet our stories are built from many different ingredients: snippets of what actually happened, thoughts about what might have happened, and beliefs that guide us as we attempt to remember.                                                             -Daniel Schacter

· I don’t want to be thought as mindless so I changed the name of what I was studying from mindlessness to mindfulness.                                                                                               -Ellen Langer

·Creative thinking skills include the ability to turn things over in your mind, like trying to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange.                                                                  -Teresa Amabile

· In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again.                                                                                            -James Agee

·  In the end, the power behind development is life.                                                                                                                      -Erik Erikson

· No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.                                                                                                              -William Blake

·Unfortunately, for too many women, one deviation in diet can spell the difference between confidence and despair.                                                                                                                            -Judith Rodin

·Everybody cries out to be read differently.                -Simon Weil

The selves between women and men tend to be constructed differently- women’s more in relationships, men’s more in denials of self- other connections.                                                          -Nancy Chodorow

·   In learned helplessness, people expect bad events to occur and believe there is nothing they can do to prevent them from occurring.                                                                                                                    -Martin Seligman

·    Nothing can be changed until it is faced.                -James Baldwin

·  On balance, mildly inflated self-perceptions are adaptive and characteristic of mentally healthy people.                                         -Shelly Taylor

·  Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.                                                                                                   -Antoine de st. Exupery

· Arguably, most people would do what they are told to do as long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.                                                                                                    -Isaac

· Prejudice narrows understanding by biasing our judgements and predetermining what will be discovered from exploring our environment.                                                                                        -James Jones

· A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon you are talking about real money.                                                                                  -Everett Dirksen

·The capacity to learn, to learn at all, to learn only at a definite stage of development, to learn one thing rather than another, to learn more or less quickly, must have some genetic basis.                                                                 -Julian Huxley

·  Conformity is a powerful force on our behavior and can even at times make us do things that conflict with our attitudes, ethics and morals.                                                              -Solomon Asch

·  The question is how can cooperation evolve in a world of egoists.                                                                                             -Robert Axelrod

· When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind.                                            -William Thompson

· Many couples are united in wedlock in a rosy fog of optimism. Blinded to the shortcomings, each sees only the good points. But as the excitement of the new marriage wears off, they drift to the opposite extreme and view these same traits as faults.                                                   -H. G. Bosch

· Look to your health and if you have it, value it next to a good conscience… Health is a blessing we mortals can achieve.                                                                                                                              -Izaak Walton

·   In becoming a person, individuals drop one after another of their defensive masks with which they have faced life.                  -Carl Rogers

·   Sleep plays a major role in preparing the body and brain for an alert, productive, psychologically and physiologically healthy tomorrow.                                                                                                  -James Moas