Child Quotes by Erik Erikson

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering…

— Erik Erikson

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

— Erik Erikson

The growing child must derive a vitalizing sense of reality from the awareness that his individual way of mastering experience (his ego synthesis) is…

— Erik Erikson

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

— Erik Erikson

Doubt is the brother of shame.

— Erik Erikson

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method.

— Erik Erikson

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.

— Erik Erikson

“The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.”

— Erik Erikson

“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that…

— Erik Erikson

I am what survives of me.

— Erik Erikson

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and…

— Erik Erikson

Will, therefore, is the unbroken determination to exercise free choice as well as self-restraint, in spite of the unavoidable experience of shame and doubt…

— Erik Erikson

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most…

— Erik Erikson

Personality, too, is destiny.

— Erik Erikson

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to…

— Erik Erikson