Hans Selye Quotes

“Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.”

“Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.”

“If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.”

“The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.”

“Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.”

“The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.”

“The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.”

“I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy.”

“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.”

“So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.”

“I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.”