Alfred Adler

"Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing."

6 likes

Source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

About the author

Alfred Adler

Alfred Adler

Psychologist

Alfred Adler was an Austrian psychiatrist known for founding individual psychology and emphasizing the importance of social interest in mental health.

All quotes by Alfred Adler →

Same author

More quotes by Alfred Adler

See all →
Alfred Adler Psychologist

"We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations."

Read quote
Alfred Adler Psychologist

"What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!"

Read quote
Alfred Adler Psychologist

"You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else."

Read quote