G. Stanley Hall Quotes

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

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

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

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

- G. Stanley Hall

Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

- G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

- G. Stanley Hall

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

- G. Stanley Hall

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

- G. Stanley Hall

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

- G. Stanley Hall

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

- G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

- G. Stanley Hall

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

- G. Stanley Hall