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title: "2 Disclosure Quotes By Sidney Jourard"
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> [You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you have engaged in enough mutual disclosure of self to be able anticipate how he will react…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/you-cannot-collaborate-with-another-person-toward-some-common-end/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

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> [Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/perhaps-the-most-important-reason-for-self-disclosure-is-that-without/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

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## More by Sidney Jourard

> [We encourage people to believe that there is only one identity, one role, one way for them to be, one value for them to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/we-encourage-people-to-believe-that-there-is-only-one-identity-one/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/this-loss-of-self-contributes-to-illness-in-its-myriad-forms/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/you-cannot-collaborate-with-another-person-toward-some-common-end/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/perhaps-the-most-important-reason-for-self-disclosure-is-that-without/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/the-act-of-writing-bears-something-in-common-with-the-act-of-love-the/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/we-learn-to-deceive-ourselves-while-we-are-trying-to-deceive-others/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/paradoxically-we-fail-to-disclose-ourselves-to-other-people-because/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/learning-is-not-a-task-or-a-problem-it-is-a-way-to-be-in-the-world/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/we-camouflage-our-true-being-before-others-to-protect-ourselves/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/actualization-of-self-cannot-be-sought-as-a-goal-in-its-own-right/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/a-choice-which-confronts-every-one-of-us-at-every-moment-is-this/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/the-experience-of-surprise-is-a-sign-of-one-s-readiness-to-grow/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

> [Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-jourard/amazement-and-wonder-signify-that-one-s-concepts-of-self-and-of-the/)

[Sidney Jourard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-jourard/)

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