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B. F. Skinner Quotes


Brief author info: B. F. Skinner (1904-1990) American behavioral psychologist and writer.


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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.



Motivational Quote
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.


Age Quote
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
Love Quote
Its better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what your not.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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