Hugo Münsterberg Quotes

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WE have placed our psychotechnical interest at the service of economic tasks... The purpose before us was to find for every economic occupation the best-fitted personality, both in the interest of economic success and in the interest of personal development.

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Applied psychology can, therefore, speak the language of an exact science ill its own field, independent of economic opinions and debatable partisan interests.

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The theorists of scientific management seem to think that the most subtle methods are indispensable for physical measurements, but for psychological inquiry nothing but a kind of intuition is necessary.

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The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.

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Only the subtle psychological individual analysis can overcome the superficial prejudices of group psychology.

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The knowledge of nature and the mastery of nature have always belonged together.

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The inner labor, the inner values, and the inner difficulties and frictions are too often unknown to those who decide for a vocation, and they are unable to correlate those essential factors of the life-calling with all that nature by inheritance, and society by surroundings and training, have planted and developed in their minds.

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The man of learning without imagination has feet but no wings.

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