Ryle, Gilbert

"Honesty is not brutal frankness but truthfulness tempered with consideration for others' feelings."

"The concept of maturity involves the development of sound judgment and emotional stability."

"Resilience is the capacity to recover from difficulties and adapt to changing circumstances."

"The nature of influence depends more on how one is perceived than on what one consciously intends."

"Contentment is a disposition to appreciate what one has without constant desire for more."

"The mind is not a private theatre in which occurrences and scenes are played for an unseen audience."

"Thinking is not a ghostly operation that goes on in a mysterious medium."

"We are apt to think that a child learns to speak by imitation, but this is only part of the story."

"The dogma of the ghost in the machine has main contrails in the representation of mental conduct."

"Behaviourism is often represented as having denied the existence of the mind, but this is a misinterpretation."

"Knowing how is not a species of knowing that."

"The concept of mind has been the source of recurring intellectual discomfort."

"What is it to move one's arm? It is not merely to contract certain muscles."

"Common sense is not infallible, but it is a necessary starting point."

"Feeling is a response, not merely a sensation."

"Intelligence is not a single faculty but a cluster of dispositions."

"A person can be intelligent without being scholarly."

"The concept of will has been greatly misunderstood in philosophical tradition."

"Motives are not internal pushes but reasons for action."

"Emotions are not mere feelings but involve cognitive elements."

"The notion of consciousness as a private inner realm is fundamentally confused."

"Habit is not the enemy of thought but often its condition."

"We learn by doing, and doing well requires practice."

"Mistakes are not merely errors but opportunities for understanding."

"The mind cannot be located in a single place like the brain."

"Logical thinking is teachable through proper methods and practice."

"Imagination is constrained by what we already know."

"Language shapes but does not determine our thoughts."

"Understanding requires more than the accumulation of facts."

"The concept of duty has often been divorced from its practical context."