Quotes About Developmental Psychology

#1. I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Alison Gopnik

#2. Developmental psychologists have pretty much discarded the concept of developmental milestones, but developmental milestones remain the only thing that most people know about developmental psychology.

Nicholas Day

#3. In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Jean Piaget

#4. Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

Alison Gopnik

#5. As told by Kafka's close friend Max Brod:

"Suddenly he began to speak to the fish in their illuminated tanks. 'Now at least I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.' It was the time he turned strictly vegetarian.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to its agents the marvellous faculty of having precise ideas of a god composed of so many contradictory qualities?

Baron D'Holbach

#7. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

Ira Glass

#8. I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

Mario Lemieux

#9. The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao

Laozi

#10. Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.

Tamora Pierce

#11. Human beings are miserable disasters. They make mistakes. Do the wrong things.

Pam Godwin

#12. ...she prefers to think in similitudes rather than reason things out...

J.M. Coetzee

#13. I'm one of those people that just likes to be comfortable.

Ludacris

#14. To the extent that we retain the critical attitudes and destructive elements we have incorporated into our own personalities, we remain undifferentiated from our parents throughout our lifetime.

Lisa Firestone

#15. Kindness is the ability to love someone in such a way that she will remember your kindness for the rest of her life.

Debasish Mridha

#16. On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Wilhelm Wundt

#17. All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.

Philip Gibbs

#18. Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

James Otis

#19. Don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better till you get worse, yeah you send a little smile my way. And don't be so hard on yourself. You won't get better til you get worse, yeah you send a little love my way.

Tegan Quin

#20. Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

Rumi

#21. I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

Conrad Sewell