Your Psychology. . .

Your Psychology
Popular Psychology
Professional Psychology
Challenges
Treatments
Psychology Quotes
Helpful Products
Contact
About
Psychology Quotes
 
 
 
Quotes from famous psychologists, or on psychology-related topics. Enjoy!
 
 
 
 

  • Behavioural psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats. - Douglas Busch

 

  • We ought to regard the breaking of a child's spirit as a sin against humanity. - Erik Erikson

 

  • The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.- Jean Piaget

 

  • Nurture shapes nature. - Albert Bandura

 

  • He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. - Abraham Maslow

 

  • A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother - unknown

 

  • A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. - B. F. Skinner

 

FREE updates by email

 

 

  • Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin

 

  • Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice. - Erik Erikson

 

  • You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills

 

  • Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.- William James

 

  • The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis

 

  • Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. - Carl Jung

 

  • Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. - Dr. Seuss

 

  • We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. - William James

 

  • He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed. - William James

 

  • The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. - Carl Jung

 

  • The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

 

  • Truth happens to an idea. - William James

 

  • Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can. - Philip Zimbardo

 

  • The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

 

  • Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think. - Albert Bandura

 

  • By sticking it out through tough times, people emerge from adversity with a stronger sense of efficacy. - Albert Bandura

 

  • What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions. - Albert Bandura

 

  • Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. - Ivan Pavlov

 

  • Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. - William James

 

  • Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered. And the wider and more numerous the fissures on the surface, the more the unity is strengthened in the depths.- Carl Jung