As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves. — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know. — 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 purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind,… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
I have come to think that one of the most satisfying experiences I know — and also one of the most growth-promoting… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself, a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended,… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability… — 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
