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- "To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind." — Edward Thorndike
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Quotes list
Quotes 1
- "Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or even cares." — Daniel Dennett
Quotes 2
- "Cogito, ergo sum: I think, therefore I am." — René Descartes
Quotes 3
- "Where id is, there shall ego be." — Sigmund Freud
Quotes 4
- "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." — John Locke
Quotes 5
- "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." — Abraham Maslow
Quotes 6
- "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man." — B. F. Skinner
Quotes 7
- "Everywhere I go, I find a poet has been there before me." — Sigmund Freud
Quotes 8
- "Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning." — Karen Horney
Quotes 9
- "Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." — William James
Quotes 10
- "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." — Carl Jung
Quotes 11
- "Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin." — Ivan Pavlov
Quotes 12
- "Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality." — Jean Piaget
Quotes 13
- "Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self." — Carl Rogers
Quotes 14
- "To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind." — Edward Thorndike
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- "For every question somewhere there is a answer. But the answer to the question is limitless because the answer has the ability to create limitless questions. " - Christopher Monson Miconi -- 67.166.70.61 11:16, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
- People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be... When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner"... I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. (Carl Rogers, 1980, p. 22, as cited in Sundberg et al., 2002, p. 99).
- "The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." - Carl Rogers in On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy