Ivan Sechenov famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

  • Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

  • I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

  • One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.

  • The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.

  • Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

  • I'm not much of an analyzer or a psychologist.

  • After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, “no hablo ingles.”

  • A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.