A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle knowledge exists primarily for use. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
“The most valuable information on how to maintain or save relationships comes from scientific observation of couples in action, right down to… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
