G. Stanley Hall Quotes

"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Adolescence, Now)

"Being an only child is a disease in itself."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Being, Disease)

"Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Work, Development)

"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Sense, Will)

"The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Life, Years)

"Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Habit, Environment, Man)

"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."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Age, Civilization, Body, Disease, Protection)

"The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Future, Heredity, Man, May, Past)

"Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself."
- G. Stanley Hall
(Related: Love, Sex, Theory)