List of G. Stanley Hall Quotes

Muscles Are In A Most Intimate And Peculiar Sense The Organs Of The Will.

Precisely What Menstruation Is, Is Not Yet Very Well Known.

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.

Daily Contact With Some Teachers Is Itself All-sided Ethical Education For The Child Without A Spoken Precept. Here, Too, The Real Advantage Of Male Over Female Teachers,especially For Boys, Is Seen In Their Superior Physical Strength,which Often, If Highly Estimated, Gives Real Dignity And Commands Real Respect, And Especially In The Unquestionably Greater Uniformity Of Their Moods And Their Discipline.

Muscles Are In A Most Intimate And Peculiar Sense The Organs Of The Will. They Have Built All The Roads, Cities And Machines In The World, Written All The Books, Spoken All The Words, And, In Fact Done Everything That Man Has Accomplished With Matter. Character Might Be A Sense Defined As A Plexus Of Motor Habits.

There Is No More Wild, Free, Vigorous Growth Of The Forest, But Everything Is In Pots Or Rows Like A Rococo Garden... The Pupil Is In The Age Of Spontaneous Variation Which At No Period Of Life Is So Great. He Does Not Want A Standardized, Overpeptonized Mental Diet. It Palls On His Appetite.

Of All Work-schools, A Good Farm Is Probably The Best For Motor Development.

Modern Man Was Not Meant To Do His Best Work Before Forty But Is By Nature, And Is Becoming More So, An Afternoon And Evening Worker.

This Splendid Subject [mathematics], Queen Of All Exact Sciences, And The Ideal And Norm Of All Careful Thinking.

All Possible Truth Is Practical. To Ask Whether Our Conception Of Chair Or Table Corresponds To The Real Chair Or Table Apart From The Uses To Which They May Be Put, Is As Utterly Meaningless And Vain As To Inquire Whether A Musical Tone Is Red Or Yellow. No Other Conceivable Relation Than This Between Ideas And Things Can Exist. The Unknowable Is What I Cannot React Upon. The Active Part Of Our Nature Is Not Only An Essential Part Of Cognition Itself, But It Always Has A Voice In Determining What Shall Be Believed And What Rejected.

Every Theory Of Love, From Plato Down Teaches That Each Individual Loves In The Other Sex What He Lacks In Himself.

Abundance And Vigor Of Automatic Movements Are Desirable, And Even A Considerable Degree Of Restlessness Is A Good Sign In Young Children.