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492 Psychologist Quotes

Even when people act nastily to you, don't condemn them or retaliate.

When people Act nastily Condemn them Retaliate
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You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.

Largely constructed Depression You can Deconstruct it
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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

Acceptance Love Person Lovable traits
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In fact most of what we call anxiety is over concern about what someone thinks of you.

Call anxiety Over concern Someone thinks You
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Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

Self-esteem Greatest sickness Man Woman
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Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

Failure Have anything Intrinsic value Person
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Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others

Being assertive Mean attacking Ignoring others Feelings
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Convince yourself that worrying about many situations will make them worse rather than improve them.

Convince yourself Worrying about Situations Them worse
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Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.

Most people Given up Faced Criticism
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Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Rational beliefs Closer Getting Good results
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The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

More sinful Guilty Person Feel
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Worrying about dying will hardly help you live.

Worrying About dying Help you Alive
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We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Can't change The past How people Thinking
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Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
Eating Decision Nobody forces Your hands
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Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.

Call emotion Certain kind Biased prejudiced Strongly evaluative
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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware

People Have motives Thoughts Are unaware
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Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

You avoid Alarming situations Increase Your anxiety
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People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

People Get insights Bothering them Change
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You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

You have Exist Live Your life
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Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.
Most things Worth having Some sacrifices You expect
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I could not think without writing.

I Think Writing
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Play is the work of childhood.

Play Work Childhood
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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Express Idea Knowledge Active
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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Intelligence What Use Know
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The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Goal Education Knowledge Child
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Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Play Answer How New
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It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Children Chance Development Knowledge
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Scientific Knowledge Evolution Changed
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With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct

Moral Rules Child Conduct
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During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.

Life Manner Habits Education
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Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

Logical Activity Whole Intelligence
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Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.

Egocentrism Form Behaviour Individual
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All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

Morality System Rules Individual
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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Words Knowledge World Practical
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Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

Childish Ego Social Environment
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What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
What See Changes Know
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Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

Time Teaches Child Inventing
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Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Logic Mathematics Linguistic Structures
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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Reflective Abstraction Individual Actions
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The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly

Knowledge History Past Changing
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From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.

Moral View Child Destiny
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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Knowing Reality Systems Transformations
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In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Genetic Developmental Absolute Beginning
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Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

Scientific Thought Momentary Process
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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

Earliest Child Subject Actions
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The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.

Practice Narrative Argument Invention
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Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children Periods Play Exploration
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Experience precedes understanding.

Experience Precedes Understanding
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We learn more when we are compelled to invent.

We Learn Compelled Invent
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Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

Education Saving Societies Collapse
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