Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by John Bowlby

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British psychologist John Bowlby.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Edward John Mostyn Bowlby, CBE, FBA, FRCP, FRCPsych was a British psychologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, notable for his interest in child development and for his pioneering work in attachment theory. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Bowlby as the 49th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.

British - Psychologist | February 26, 1907 - September 2, 1990

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

John Bowlby

The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

John Bowlby

Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base

John Bowlby

If we value our children, we must cherish their parents

John Bowlby

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

John Bowlby

We're only as needy as our unmet needs.

John Bowlby

Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons.

John Bowlby

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by John Bowlby

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