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  • There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

    Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper
  • The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.

    Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper
  • Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

  • If you want to learn about an organization, try to change it.

  • The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

    Maturity   Men   Self  
    "The Research Center for Group Dynamics".
  • Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.

  • No research without action, no action without research.

  • Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these outstanding personalities. The fundamental ideas of Gestalt theory are the foundation of all our investigations in the field of the will, of affection, and of the personality.

    Kurt. Lewin, (2013). “A Dynamic Theory of Personality - Selected Papers”, p.231, Read Books Ltd
  • A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.

    Time   Successful   Goal  
    "Resolving social conflicts; selected papers on group dynamics" edited by Gertrude W. Lewin New York: Harper & Row, 1948, p. 133; as cited in "Schooling & Capitalism: A Sociological Reader" by Roger Dale, Madeleine MacDonald, Geoff Esland, (p. 111), 1976.
  • Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

    Kurt Lewin (2013). “Principles of Topological Psychology”, p.24, Read Books Ltd
  • If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

    Attributed in "Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995" by Charles W. Tolman, (p. 31), 1996.
  • When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

    Rivers   Culture   Young  
  • Experience alone does not create knowledge.

    Doe  
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