Martin Seligman Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.”

“We have children to pursue other elements of well-being. We want meaning in life. We want relationships.”

“Creativity is bound up in our ability to find new ways around old problems.”

“I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.”

“If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.”

“It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.”

“Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.”

“I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.”

“I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.”

“In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.”