John B. Watson

Psychologist American 1878 – 1958

American psychologist who founded behaviorism and emphasized observable behavior.

419 quotes

"Fear responses can be completely unlearned with proper methods."
Fear
"The human is nature's most malleable creature."
Nature
"Solitude teaches us about our own behavioral patterns."
Solitude
"Friendship forms through repeated positive behavioral associations."
Friendship
"Family bonds strengthen through conditioned behaviors of care."
Family
"Hope is a learned response to environmental improvement."
Hope
"Courage is simply learned response to fear stimuli."
Courage
"Beauty responses are learned through cultural conditioning."
Beauty
"Power is the ability to shape others' behavior."
Power
"Faith is learned behavior, not innate belief."
Faith
"Leadership is the art of conditioning group behavior."
Leadership
"Dreams of success are built through behavioral rehearsal."
Dreams
"Humor develops through learned appreciation of behavioral incongruity."
Humor
"The creative mind is one conditioned for novel responses."
Creativity
"All human progress is behavioral progress."
"The future belongs to those who understand behavioral science."
Knowledge
"Therapy is the retraining of maladaptive behaviors."
Health
"The self is simply the totality of learned behaviors."
Philosophy
"Understanding behavior is understanding everything about humans."
Wisdom
"Society progresses by improving behavioral conditioning methods."
Change
"The spirit is mere metaphor for complex behaviors."
Truth
"Virtue is nothing but repeated virtuous behavioral patterns."
Wisdom
"The will is simply our strongest conditioned response."
Strength
"Human nature is simply the collection of our learned behaviors."
Life
"Progress requires systematic study of behavioral change mechanisms."
"The unexamined behavior is the life not worth living."
Philosophy
"The organism responds as a whole to stimuli in the environment, not through discrete faculties but through integrated behavior patterns."
Science
"We are products of our conditioning, shaped by the environments and experiences we encounter from birth."
Education
"The human being is fundamentally an animal adapting to its surroundings through learned responses."
Nature
"Introspection is a method so unreliable that I question its scientific validity entirely."
Philosophy