Solomon Asch Quotes

#1. Other classic experiments conducted by social psychologist Solomon Asch show how adults readily adopt the opinion of others in simple tasks, such as matching a line to one of a set of other lines

Anonymous

#2. You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Publilius Syrus

#3. That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.

Solomon Asch

#4. As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast - the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting west to the Americas - both powers had two main goals in mind: finding precious metals and planting sugarcane. (Oh, and spreading the word of God.) The

Tom Reiss

#5. Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance.

David Brooks

#6. Just because there's a crack in something, doesn't mean you throw it away.

Geoff Johns

#7. In a state of anomie, the absence of justice becomes the panacea for justice

Dauglas Dauglas

#8. Life in society requires consensus as an indispensable condition. But consensus, to be productive, requires that each individual contribute independently out of of his experience and insight.

Solomon E. Asch

#9. Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money.

Roger Wicker

#10. Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

Betty White

#11. Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

J.R. Ackerley

#12. A spiritually optimistic point of view holds that the universe is woven out of a fabric of love. Everything that is happening is ultimately for the good if we're willing to face it head-on and use our adversities for soul growth.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#13. Sometimes you have to lie. Sometimes it's the only way to protect the ones you love.

Emily Bleeker

#14. The human mind is an organ for the discovery of truths rather than of falsehoods.

Solomon Asch

#15. Karma indicates action, but not necessarily physical action; nor is karma a result in the sense of a reward.

Frederick Lenz

#16. I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.

Patrick Rothfuss

#17. Disability scholars Andrienne Asch and Erik Parens, in their seminal discussion of the problem, wrote,'Pre-natal diagnosis reinforces the medical model that disability itself, not societal discrimination against people with disabilities, is the problem to be solved.

Andrew Solomon

#18. Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated ... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Solomon Asch

#19. Lusty blacksmiths and naughty princesses. Now that's scary

Simon Holt

#20. Those who have learned to behave as winners always end up winners.

John Patrick Hickey

#21. Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

Peter Capaldi