M. Scott Peck Quotes

"Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Power, Behavior, Responsibility)

"We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Health, Causes, Disease)

"We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Life, Problems)

"We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness."
- M. Scott Peck

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Time, Value, Will)

"You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Time)

"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Life, Peace, Community, Risk, Vulnerability)

"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Experience, Power, Growth, Awareness, Learning, Spiritual)

"The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Behavior, Consequences, Desire, Difficulty, Lies, Pain, Responsibility)

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."
- M. Scott Peck

"Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Experience, Love, Self)

"Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Development, Growth, Problems, Spirit)

"One extends one's limits only by exceeding them."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Limits)

"It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Problems)

"Discipline is wisdom and vice versa."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Wisdom, Discipline, Vice)

"Ultimately love is everything."
- M. Scott Peck
(Related: Love)