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Category Archives: Psychologists

“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task”. –Haim Ginott

“What is the meaning of life? This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself”. –Julian Jaynes

“I’m tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don’t want to change!” –August Dvorak

“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking liberalism”. –Friedrich von Hayek

“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

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use”. –Soren Kierkegaard

“Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!” –Carl Jung

“Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin”. –Ivan Pavlov

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see”. –Arthur Schopenhauer

“Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads; not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race”. –Edward Thorndike

“You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion”. –L. Ron Hubbard

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition”. –Timothy Leary

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor”. –William James

“You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life”. –Vernon Howard

“We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them”. –Chauncey Wright

“Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth”. –Hans Bender

“Everywhere that I go I find out that a poet has been there before me”. –Sigmund Freud