Occupation: Psychologist Birth: September 9, 1890 Death: February 12, 1947
If you want to learn about an organization, try to change it..
Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is differe….
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process..
Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts ….
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement..
Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception..
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it..
No research without action, no action without research..
There is nothing so practical as a good theory..
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 ….
Experience alone does not create knowledge..
The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dep….
When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze..