Hans Eysenck Quotes

"There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate."
- Hans Eysenck

"Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts."
- Hans Eysenck
(Related: Science, Politics, Business, Diplomacy, Facts, Tact)

"In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure."
- Hans Eysenck
(Related: Failure, Results, Treatment)

"In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients."
- Hans Eysenck

"I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it."
- Hans Eysenck
(Related: Truth, World)

"If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad."
- Hans Eysenck
(Related: Truth, Beliefs)