15 Great Psychology Quotes

15 Great Psychology Quotes

1.  "We know what we are but not what we         may be."  (Ophelia in Hamlet)


2. "I have not failed. I have just found
     10,000 things that do not work." 
      Thomas Edison (1847-1931)


3. "The brain is wider than the sky."
      Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)


4. "Great spirits have often overcome
      violent opposition from mediocre
      minds."
      Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


5. "We are so made that we can only derive        intense enjoyment from a contrast and
      only very little from a state of things.
      Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)


6. "I am not bound to succeed, but I am
      bound to live up to what light I
      have." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)


7. "Don't become a mere recorder of facts,
      but try to penetrate the mystery of their
      origin." Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)


8. The greatest discovery of my generation        is that human beings can alter their                lives by altering their attitudes of                    mind." William James (1842-1910)


9. "There is nothing either good or bad, but        thinking makes it so.
      Shakespeare            (Hamlet)


10. Colorless green ideas sleep                                 furiously. Noam Chomsky (1928-  )

11.  Education survives when what has                 been learnt has been forgotten.
       B.F Skinner (1904-1990)


12. There is in every child at every stage a           new miracle of vigorous unfolding.
       Erik Erikson (1902-1994)



13. Much learning does not teach                           understanding.
       Heraclitus (544-483 B.C.)


14. The disappearance of a sense of                       responsibility is the most far-reaching           consequence of submission to                           authority.
       Stanley Milgram (1933-1984)


15. We must learn to live together as                     brothers or perish together as fools.
       Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)