Eysenck Quotes

#1. Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

Hans Eysenck

#2. The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Idries Shah

#3. What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance.

Hans Jurgen Eysenck

#4. There are great slender models, great tall models, Amazonian models, great busty models - my point is models of all shapes and sizes, age, ethnic background should be embraced and celebrated.

Erin O'Connor

#5. It would be nice to find a 'planet of trees and birds' in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. The social problems that arise, arise from the facts, not our investigation of these facts.

Hans Jurgen Eysenck

#7. I am a fiscal conservative.

Ed Rendell

#8. In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.

Hans Eysenck

#9. Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

Richard Dawkins

#10. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

Hans Eysenck

#11. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Hans Eysenck

#12. Maybe love made you kiss all messy. Maybe love made you hungry for faces.

J.M. Darhower

#13. In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

Hans Eysenck

#14. They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

Hans Eysenck

#15. I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool.

Harry Styles

#16. The strong must learn to be lonely.

Henrik Ibsen

#17. He glued the chair to my ass." Silence.

Ilona Andrews

#18. It would be very peculiar if a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complexities, learn quickly, and benefit from experience, did not have very important implications.

Hans Jurgen Eysenck

#19. There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Hans Eysenck

#20. It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous.

Hans Eysenck

#21. I am not alone even in solitude.

Debasish Mridha

#22. If you admit that to silence your opponent by force
is to win an intellectual argument,
then you admit the right to silence people by force.

Hans Eysenck

#23. I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Hans Eysenck

#24. One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.

Rachel Gibson

#25. Jesus shouldn't have died so early and then he could have got twice as much across. They killed him and then twisted so many of the best things he said. Human hands started messing it all up and now so much of religion is hogwash.

Jimi Hendrix

#26. Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

Hans Eysenck

#27. What is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.

Hans Jurgen Eysenck