Kurt Lewin quotes
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“Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.”
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“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”
-- Kurt LewinSource : Attributed in "Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995" by Charles W. Tolman, (p. 31), 1996.
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“When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.”
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“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 LewinSource : Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper
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“A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.”
-- Kurt LewinSource : "Resolving social conflicts; selected papers on group dynamics" edited by Gertrude W. Lewin New York: Harper & Row, 1948, p. 133; as cited in "Schooling & Capitalism: A Sociological Reader" by Roger Dale, Madeleine MacDonald, Geoff Esland, (p. 111), 1976.
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“There is nothing so practical as a good theory.”
-- Kurt LewinSource : Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper
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“The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative – 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.”
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“Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.”
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“Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. 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 LewinSource : Kurt. Lewin, (2013). “A Dynamic Theory of Personality - Selected Papers”, p.231, Read Books Ltd
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“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 LewinSource : Kurt Lewin (2013). “Principles of Topological Psychology”, p.24, Read Books Ltd
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