Quotes in psychology

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

They can do all because they think they can.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists "How do you motivate people?" is, "You don't."

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.