Carl Rogers Quotes

"The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true."
- Carl Rogers
(Related: Facts)

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."
- Carl Rogers
(Related: Life, Being, Direction, State)

"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
- Carl Rogers
(Related: Change)

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."
- Carl Rogers
(Related: Novelty)

"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
- Carl Rogers
(Related: People, World)

"With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can."
- Carl Rogers
(Related: Life)

"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."
- Carl Rogers
(Related: Experience, Being, Open)

"In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"
- Carl Rogers
(Related: Change, Growth, Cure, May, Now, Personal growth, professionals, Question, Years)

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
- Carl Rogers
(Related: Change, Paradox)