Psychological Theory Quotes

#1. But my point is not just that the psychological theory is inadequate; it is that the practice is unproductive. If we do not address the ultimate cause of a problem, the problem will not get solved. This is not to say

Alfie Kohn

#2. Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

Abraham Maslow

#3. No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

Marty Rubin

#4. We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

Marvin Minsky

#5. Warfare is now an interlocking system of actions - political, economic,
psychological, military - that aims at the overthrow of the established
authority in a country and its replacement by another regime.

Roger Trinquier

#6. Although the drama of games of strategy is strongly linked with the psychological aspects of the conflict, game theory is not concerned with these aspects. Game theory, so to speak, plays the board. It is concerned only with the logical aspects of strategy.

Anatol Rapoport

#7. Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

Janusz Korczak

#8. Control Master Theory proposes that most psychological problems are the result of our altruistic impulses run amok.

Lewis Engel

#9. One must treat theory-in-use as both a psychological certainty and an intellectual hypothesis.

Chris Argyris

#10. [T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs ... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.

E. O. Wilson

#11. Control Master Theory suggests that our psychological problems come about in much the same way: our decision to make ourselves unhappy because one or both of our parents were unhappy is just as altruistic as our friend's decision to run through flames to save his daughter.

Lewis Engel