Carl Rogers

In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I…

— Carl Rogers

“His experiencing is process in nature, feeling the new in each situation and interpreting it anew, interpreting it in terms of the…

— Carl Rogers

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

— Carl Rogers

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind,…

— Carl Rogers

When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you,…

— Carl Rogers

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

— Carl Rogers

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional…

— Carl Rogers

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a…

— Carl Rogers

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

— Carl Rogers

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

— Carl Rogers

“If it is possible genuinely to meet and discover each other as persons, actually to empathize with and understand both the cultural…

— Carl Rogers

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

— Carl Rogers

It is a direction not a destination.

— Carl Rogers

An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability…

— Carl Rogers

The mainspring of creativity appears to be the same tendency which we discover so deeply as the curative force in psychotherapy, man's…

— Carl Rogers

Experience is the highest authority.

— Carl Rogers

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

— Carl Rogers

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness.…

— Carl Rogers

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each…

— Carl Rogers

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often…

— Carl Rogers

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear…

— Carl Rogers

We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing them, controlling them by…

— Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of…

— Carl Rogers

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them…

— Carl Rogers

The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a…

— Carl Rogers