Psychologist Quotes

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.

It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.

At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.

The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.

Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.