I shall venture to present in skeletonized form a theory of learning in which I shall make central use of the notion of cognitive maps. Behavior is purposive and cognitive.

Everything important in psychology can be investigated in essence through the continued experimental and theoretical analysis of the determiners of rat behavior at a choice point in a maze.

Behavior as we shall observe it always seems to have the character of getting-to or getting-from a specific goal-object, or goal-situation.

Rats, like men, can be expected to develop expectancies about goals and means.

The study of the books of the ancients is obligatory under religious law.

-- Averroes

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

-- Abraham Maslow

I wish I had never learned to write.

-- Nero

We who have lived in the universities of Germany owe it to our science and to ourselves to refuse to teach where the freedom of teaching has been destroyed.

-- Wolfgang Köhler

There exists, in the human organism, a drive to evaluate his opinion and abilities.

-- Leon Festinger