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Top 20 G. Stanley Hall Quotes (2025 Update)

G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”

1. “Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”

2. “Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Being an only child is a disease in itself.”

3. “Being an only child is a disease in itself.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.”

4. “Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.”

5. “The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.”

6. “Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.”

7. “Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.”

8. “Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.”

9. “Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.”

10. “Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.”

11. “Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them.”

12. “Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.”

13. “Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.”

14. “Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.”

15. “Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.”

16. “The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.”

17. “The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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G. Stanley Hall Quote: “Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.”

20. “Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.”

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