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B.F. Skinner Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two(Hackett Classics)
Tagged: Chaos, Genius, Intellectual, Disagreements
“A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.”
— B.F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Tagged: Psychology, Behavior
“If you’re old, don’t try to change yourself, change your environment.”
— B.F. Skinner, If you're old, don't try to change... Change Quotes- AllAuthor
Tagged: Change, life advice
“The world’s a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.”
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two(Hackett Classics)
Tagged: Peace, deceiving, World, Standard
“I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.”
— B.F. Skinner, The Life of B.F.Skinner
Tagged: Life, Fate, Destiny
“No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn’t die out, it’s wiped out.”
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two(Hackett Classics)
Tagged: motivation, Baby, Child, Curiosity, Exploration
“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.”
— B.F. Skinner, B.F. Skinner: The Man and His Ideas, Vol. 4 by Richard I. Evans(1968-06-03)
Tagged: Books, Reading, Literature, Passion, Bibliophile
“Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.”
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two(Hackett Classics)
Tagged: Control, Possibility, Failure, Learning, Future
“The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.”
— B.F. Skinner, Verbal Behavior by B. F. Skinner(2015-08-24)
Tagged: Behavior, Verbal, Nonverbal, actions
“Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.”
— B.F. Skinner, Cumulative Record: Definitive Edition
Tagged: Happiness, intelligent, Skillful, productive, Desire, goal, Personality
“The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Tagged: Potential
“We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.”
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Tagged: Understanding Love, understanding aggression, Understanding, Power of Love, weakness of force, weakness of aggression, Love, force, Aggression
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