Kurt Lewin famous quotes

03-30-2025

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.
-- Kurt Lewin

#Process #Passive #Active
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
-- Kurt Lewin

#Business #Trying #Want
When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.
-- Kurt Lewin

#Rivers #Culture #Young
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 at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.
-- Kurt Lewin

#Acceptance #Ideas #Fancy
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.
-- Kurt Lewin

#Time #Successful #Goal
There is nothing so practical as a good theory.
-- Kurt Lewin

#Theory #Practicals
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative Â– destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. We all need each other. This type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to the maturity of individual and group functioning.
-- Kurt Lewin

#Maturity #Men #Self
Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.
-- Kurt Lewin

#Perception #Action #Social
Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang KÃ¶hler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.
-- Kurt Lewin

#Teaching #Ideas #Personality
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 different cases
-- Kurt Lewin

#Events #Different #Environment

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