The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context. Votes: 3
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality. Votes: 1
No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality. Votes: 0
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. Votes: 4 Jack Butler Yeats
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Votes: 6 Immanuel Kant