David Seabury

Who was David Seabury?

David Seabury was an American psychologist, author, and lecturer. While practicing as a consulting psychologist in New York City, he published fifteen books. He founded the Centralist School of Psychology, was the founder and president of the David Seabury School of Psychology, and was president of the Seabury University of Adult Education.

Famous Quotes:

• The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.
• Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
• Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
• Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
• Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
• Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
• Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
• No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
• Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
• Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it ambivalence: a collision between thought and feeling.