Quotes of: Abraham-lincoln Keyword

The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

Irrationality

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

Irrationality

If you have a fight with yourself, who can win?

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.

Peter Hobson

When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

Philip Zimbardo

The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.

Richard Bandler

We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

Sue Johanson

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.

Susan Jeffers

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Stanley Milgram

I don't feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.

Ted Bundy

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game.

Louise Bates Ames

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Laurence J. Peter

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

Laurence J. Peter

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Rollo May

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Carl Rogers

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

Alison Gopnik

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Philip Zimbardo

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

Harry Stack Sullivan

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

James Dobson

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