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Category: social psychology

Posted on August 25, 2022

“Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”—James Baldwin, American writer, 1924-1987

Posted on August 7, 2022August 7, 2022

“Nobody learns no nothing from no history.”—Gogol Bordello, American Gypsy-punk band; in ‘Avenue B’ from “Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike” album

Posted on August 2, 2022August 2, 2022

“An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.”—Pliny the Younger [Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundis], 61-c.113 AD

Posted on July 30, 2022July 30, 2022

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”—George Smith Patton, U.S. Army general, 1885-1945

Posted on July 27, 2022July 27, 2022

“Nothing is a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.”—Carl Jung, Swiss psychoanalyst, 1875-1961

Posted on July 24, 2022July 24, 2022

“Everybody calls ‘clear’ those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.”—Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922

Posted on July 21, 2022

“Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”—Mahatma Gandhi, Indian anti-colonial nationalist, 1869-1948

Posted on April 19, 2022

“Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.”—Henry Ford, American industrialist, 1863-1947

Posted on April 13, 2022

“We carve out order by leaving the disorderly parts out.”—William James, Father of American Psychology, 1842-1910

Posted on April 13, 2022April 12, 2022

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.”—Albert Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist, 1879-1955

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