At the request of some of the students, I will use this space to post quotations used in class:
"Day after day, social scientists go out into the world. Day after day, they discover that people's behavior is pretty much what you'd expect." (Cullen Murphy, 1990)
"Everything psychological is simultaneously biological."
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."
"You wouldn't want to have a date with the right hemisphere." (Michael Gazzaniga, 2000)
"If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing." (William James)
"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907)
“A definition is the enclosing of a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.” (Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books)
“I like the word ‘indolence.’ It makes my laziness seem classy.” (Bern Williams)
“Chimps do not develop language. But that is no shame on them; humans would surely do no better if trained to hoot and shriek like chimps, to perform the waggle-dance of the bee, or any of the other wonderful feats in nature’s talent show.” (Stephen Pinker, 1995)
"People in general are not candid over sexual matters, they do not show their sexuality freely, but to conceal it wear a heavy overcoat of a tissue of lies, as though the weather were bad in the world of sexuality." (Sigmund Freud)
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." (Mother Theresa)
"Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" ("A person is a person through other persons.") (Zulu maxim)
"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul." (Arnold Bennett)
"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." (George Burns)
"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill." (Johnny Carson)
"'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best...' and then he had to stop and think. Because although eating honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you begin to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called." (A.A. Milne)
"'Babies are so stupid, it's not even funny' ... Babies, the study concluded, are also too stupid to do the following: avoid getting their heads trapped in automatic car windows; use ice to alleviate the pain of burn injuries resulting from touching an open flame; master the skills required for scuba diving; and use a safety ladder to reach a window to escape from a room filled with cyanide gas." (The Onion)
"Children are active thinkers, constantly trying to construct more advanced understandings of the world." (Jean Piaget)
"Assessing the impact of Piaget on developmental psychology is like assessing the impact of Shakespeare in English literature." (Beilin, 1992)
"Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other." (Laurence J. Peter)
"The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way." (Judith Martin)
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." (Mark Twain)
"Midway in the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, for the straight way was lost." (Dante, The Divine Comedy)
"A Freudian slip is like saying one thing and meaning your mother."
"Many aspects of Freudian theory are indeed out of date, and they should be: Freud died in 1939 and he has been slow to undertake further revisions." (Westen, 1998)
"Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency."
"I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers." (Stephen Hawking, in response to an interviewer who asked what his IQ is)
"Chance only favors the prepared mind." (Louis Pasteur)
"Math class is tough!" (Teen Talk Barbie)
"Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests." (Madeline L'Engle, 1972)
"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat. 'We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'" (Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland, 1865)
"We are all mad at some time or another." (Battista Mantuanus, Ecologues, 1500)
"It seems strange that any should recover here, the cryings, screechings, roarings, brawlings, shaking of chains, swearings, frettings, chaffing, are so many, so hideous, so great, that they are more able to drive a man that hath his wits, rather than out of them, than to help one that never had them, or hath lost them, to finde them againe." (account of Bethlem Hospital in London)
"One of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog, not under proper control." (T.H. Huxley, Evolution and Ethics, 1893)
"As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about." (Virginia Woolf)
"The results of ECT in treating severe depression are among the most positive treatment effects in all of medicine." (American Medical Association, 2001)
"Thought is the child of action." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
"Consistency and commitment are the hobgoblins of the mind."
"Do as most people do, and [people] will think well of thee." (Thomas Fuller)
"It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races." (Mark Twain)
"On reflecting at dinner that he had done nothing to help anybody all day, he uttered these memorable and praise-worthy words: 'Friends, I have lost a day.'" (Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars)
"I get by with a little help from my friends." (The Beatles)
"Guns not only permit violence, they can stimulate it as well. The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger." (Berkowitz, 1989)
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