Guilford Quotes & Sayings

To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually. — J. P. Guilford

The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not. — J. P. Guilford

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas. — J. P. Guilford

I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician. — Rhys Ifans

Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat. — J. P. Guilford

His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you!" he sobs and crashes out of the chamber — Alison Weir