Kurt Lewin Quotes
- The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking…
- Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these…
- Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.
- There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
- The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative – destroying…
- Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.
- Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in…
- A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.
- When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.
- A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level…