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Top 10 John Bowlby Quotes (2025 Update)

John Bowlby Quote: “We’re only as needy as our unmet needs.”

1. “We’re only as needy as our unmet needs.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base.”

2. “Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.”

3. “If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.”

4. “Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “We do as we have been done by.”

5. “We do as we have been done by.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “The human psyche, like human bones, is strongly inclined towards self-healing.”

6. “The human psyche, like human bones, is strongly inclined towards self-healing.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “Regular monitoring both of behavioural progress and of consequences is of course necessary if the organism is to learn.”

7. “Regular monitoring both of behavioural progress and of consequences is of course necessary if the organism is to learn.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “Ever since Freud made his famous, and in my view disastrous, volte-face in 1897, when he decided that the childhood seductions he had believed to be aetiologically important were nothing more than the products of his patients’ imaginations, it has been extremely unfashionable to attribute psychopathology to real-life experiences.”

8. “Ever since Freud made his famous, and in my view disastrous, volte-face in 1897, when he decided that the childhood seductions he had believed to be aetiologically important were nothing more than the products of his patients’ imaginations, it has been extremely unfashionable to attribute psychopathology to real-life experiences.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “All knowledge is conjectural and... science progresses through new theories coming to replace older ones when it becomes clear that a new theory is able to make sense of a greater circle of phenomena than are comprehended and explained by the older one and is able to predict new phenomena more accurately.”

9. “All knowledge is conjectural and... science progresses through new theories coming to replace older ones when it becomes clear that a new theory is able to make sense of a greater circle of phenomena than are comprehended and explained by the older one and is able to predict new phenomena more accurately.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “The fact that emotional feeling can be experienced during sleep is a reminder that not all processes having an emotional feeling phase originate in the environment.”

10. “The fact that emotional feeling can be experienced during sleep is a reminder that not all processes having an emotional feeling phase originate in the environment.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “Whoever may still be sceptical whether knowledge of animal behaviour can help our understanding of man can find no support from Freud.”

11. “Whoever may still be sceptical whether knowledge of animal behaviour can help our understanding of man can find no support from Freud.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “To ascribe feeling is usually to make a prediction about subsequent behaviour.”

12. “To ascribe feeling is usually to make a prediction about subsequent behaviour.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “We must conclude therefore that the processes of interpreting and appraising sensory input must unquestionably be assigned a causal role in producing whatever behaviour emerges. Like the other causal factors already discussed they are necessary but not often sufficient.”

13. “We must conclude therefore that the processes of interpreting and appraising sensory input must unquestionably be assigned a causal role in producing whatever behaviour emerges. Like the other causal factors already discussed they are necessary but not often sufficient.”

— John Bowlby

John Bowlby Quote: “Propositions of a genetic and adaptive sort are found throughout this book; and, in any theory of defence, there must be many of a structural kind. The points of view not adopted are the dynamic and the economic.”

14. “Propositions of a genetic and adaptive sort are found throughout this book; and, in any theory of defence, there must be many of a structural kind. The points of view not adopted are the dynamic and the economic.”

— John Bowlby

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