Eysenck Quotes & Sayings

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force
is to win an intellectual argument,
then you admit the right to silence people by force. — Hans Eysenck

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate. — Hans Eysenck

It would be very peculiar if a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complexities, learn quickly, and benefit from experience, did not have very important implications. — Hans Jurgen Eysenck

What you read in the newspapers, hear on the radio and see on television, is hardly even the truth as seen by experts; it is the wishful thinking of journalists, seen through filters of prejudice and ignorance. — Hans Jurgen Eysenck

Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship. — Hans Eysenck

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. — Hans Eysenck

In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients. — Hans Eysenck

Nothing succeeds like success; children who opt out of school have had a continued record of failure, and it would be difficult to blame the children themselves for voting with their feet and playing truant as much as possible. This failure is not necessary; it is imposed on the children by inappropriate methods of teaching which do not take into account the innate patterns of abilities of these children. A return to sanity is long overdue; we must pay close attention to the genetic basis of our children's abilities. — Hans Jurgen Eysenck

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not. — Hans Eysenck

Modern education does no favour to the children it is supposed to teach when it de-emphasizes facts; although facts are not the only important things in life, in science, and in the arts, they nevertheless constitute the absolutely essential substructure without which nothing worthwhile can be built. — Hans Jurgen Eysenck

The social problems that arise, arise from the facts, not our investigation of these facts. — Hans Jurgen Eysenck

the American Government is in fact enforcing a system of employment on the universities under which they are required, under pain of bankruptcy, to employ members of minority groups in spite of the fact that a better qualified member of a non-minority group is applying for the job...Quotas were considered undesirable when they were used against minority groups; they do not become desirable when they are used against majority groups. Positive discrimination, so called, is still discrimination against somebody; one man's positive discrimination is another man's negative discrimination. Furthermore, who shall define a minority?...Why are some minorities more minor than others? — Hans Jurgen Eysenck

It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous. — Hans Eysenck

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous. — Hans Eysenck

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. — Hans Eysenck

What is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new. — Hans Jurgen Eysenck

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure. — Hans Eysenck

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. — Hans Eysenck