George Kelly

Psychologist American 1905 – 1967

American psychologist who developed personal construct theory and fixed role therapy.

368 quotes

"Personal power lies in the ability to reconstruct meaning."
Power
"Understanding another person is understanding their possibilities."
Relationships
"We live not in the world, but in our interpretation of the world."
Philosophy
"Growth is the process of developing more adequate personal constructs."
Education
"The greatest freedom is the freedom to reinterpret our experiences."
Freedom
"A person's potential is limited only by their constructs."
Dreams
"Empathy is the ability to temporarily adopt another person's construct system."
Kindness
"We construct our realities through our interpretations."
Creativity
"Understanding requires courage to question our own constructs."
Courage
"The patterns we perceive are the patterns we have learned to see."
Knowledge
"Personal meaning is not found; it is created."
Wisdom
"We are bound by our interpretations, not our realities."
Life
"Change is the natural state of a person who can revise their constructs."
Change
"Understanding ourselves is understanding our system of personal predictions."
Philosophy
"A person's strength grows with each successful reconstruction of meaning."
Strength
"The future belongs to those who can imagine and construct new possibilities."
Inspiration
"We are all theorists testing our hypotheses against experience."
Science
"Happiness is coherence between our constructs and our experience."
Happiness
"Understanding is an ongoing process of revision and refinement."
Education
"We create ourselves daily through the meanings we choose to assign."
Creativity
"The path to wisdom is the path of questioning one's own constructs."
Wisdom
"A person is free to the extent they can reconstruct their meaning."
Freedom
"We are all engaged in the grand human project of meaning-making."
Philosophy
"Understanding others deepens our understanding of ourselves."
Relationships
"The future is not written; it is constructed through our choices."
Time
"Personal evolution occurs through the continual revision of constructs."
"We discover ourselves through the process of constructing meaning."
Life
"A person's possibilities are endless when they embrace the revision of their constructs."
Dreams
"The heart of being human is the capacity to interpret and reinterpret."
Philosophy
"We are architects not just of our lives, but of ourselves."
Power