Best Carl Rogers Sayings
- The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior… Authority
- If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of… Alternatives
- Most of us consist of two separated parts, trying desperately to bring themselves together into an integrated soma, where the distinctions between mind and body,… Body
- The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to… All
- Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no… Almost Completely
- There are as many "real worlds" as there are people! Life
- 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 in… Complete
- Experience is the highest authority. Authority
- No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. Authoritative
- I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness,… Accepting
- The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. Change
- The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. Abnormal Psychology
- The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. Destination
- When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. Look
- In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the… Asking
- In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. Any
- The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. Architecture
- I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary… Achievement
- The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true. Acquire
- What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. Good
- there is direction but there is no destination Destination
- Am I living in a way which is deeply satisfying to me, and which truly expresses me? Deeply
- what is most personal is most universal Funny
- People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the… Awe
- You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I… Anyone