Search Quotes
Search more than 36,000 Quotes by over 6,000 Authors.
Home Page
Quotes by Author
Quotes by Topic
Popular Quotes
Popular Authors
Submit a Quote
B. F. Skinner Quotes
Brief author info: B. F. Skinner (1904-1990) American behavioral psychologist and writer.
Showing: 1 - 10 B. F. Skinner Quotes of 22
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word "admire" then means "marvel at".
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends."
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.
Browse Page(s):
Search quotes
Life Quote
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Wisdom Quote
Before God we are all equally wise-equally foolish.
Inspirational Quote
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Marriage Quote
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Happiness Quote
There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so.
All quotations on this website are the property and copyright of their respective authors. All quotations are provided for educational and informational purposes only.
Copyright © 2011 LifeQuotesLib.com. All Rights Reserved.