1950s Quote by Jordan Peterson

The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent, better trained,…

— Northrop Frye

There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my…

— Erwin Chargaff

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.

— Anthony Standen

“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating mental illness…

— Edward Shorter

“Freud was the man who seeded a progeny of doctors interested in abnormal psychology. With the intellectual force of a battering ram, Freud penetrated…

— Dan Wilbur

“Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide,…

— Peter Redgrove

I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.

— Alan Greenspan

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

— Erich Segal

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth…

— Ross Macdonald

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they…

— John Irving

“These modern analysts! They charge so much. In my day, for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks, he would treat…

— Woody Allen

“On the other hand, I must mention that, by a diligent search in lunatic asylums, I have found individual cases of patients who where…

— Arthur Schopenhauer