Abraham Myerson > Quotes

“We like or dislike too readily, we are blinded by the race, sex and age of the one studied, and, most fatal of all, we judge by standards of beauty that are totally misleading. The sweetest face may hide the most arrant egoist, for facial beauty has very little to do with the nature behind the face. In fact, facial make-up is more influenced by diet, disease and racial tendency than by character.”
― Abraham Myerson, The Foundations of Personality

“The pleasure of praise and reward must energize, the pain of blame and punishment. must teach, else teacher and society have misused these social tools.”
― Abraham Myerson, The Foundations of Personality

“The race and the nation has its generous enthusiasms and its bursts of admiration for the noble, but its real admiration it gives to those whom it best understands. Fortunately the leaders of the race have more of generosity and fine admiration than have the mass they lead. Left to itself, the mass of the race limits its hero-worship to the lesser, unworthy race of heroes.”
― Abraham Myerson, The Foundations of Personality

“From infancy one sees the war of purposes and desires and the gradual rise of one purpose or set of purposes into dominance,—in short, the growth of unity, the growth of personality.”
― Abraham Myerson, The Foundations of Personality

“A vigorous mind shut out from outer stimuli finds in this circumstance the time to develop leisurely, finds a freedom from distraction that leads to clear views of life and a proper expression.”
― Abraham Myerson, The Foundations of Personality

“Unless the home combines interest and freedom, together with teaching, certain children become violent rebels, and, seeking freedom and interest outside of the home, find themselves in a conflict, both with their home teaching and the home teachers, that shakes the unity and the happiness of parent and child.”
― Abraham Myerson, The Foundations of Personality

“The prime result of the growth of intelligence and of experience is to make one, as it were, objective toward oneself, to view one's own thoughts, beliefs and emotions with some humor and skepticism.”
― Abraham Myerson, The Foundations of Personality