G. Stanley Hall quotes

Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. (G. Stanley Hall)
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born. View quote
G. Stanley Hall
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. View quote
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. View quote
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. View quote
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Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. View quote
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The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. View quote
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Being an only child is a disease in itself. View quote
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Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past. View quote
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The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life. View quote
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development. (G. Stanley Hall)
Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases. View quote
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War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure. View quote
G. Stanley Hall