Mary C. Jones Quotes

Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.

From the test situations which were used to reveal fears, it was found that Peter showed even more marked fear responses to the rabbit than to the rat.

I'm afraid of animals.

I have an animal phobia, especially ones I don't know.

In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

The toddler craves independence, but he fears desertion.

I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.

Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear.

What an incredible drug fear is.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.

I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of?

My guess is that fearful events are the hardest to root out. They're the ones we naturally remember the best, after all.

Yeah, snakes. They're my fear factor.

Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

I hate clowns and I would never do anything getting near a clown, I can't go to the circus.

We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old.

If I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by snakes.