Carl Rogers - Best Quotes

Learning

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 to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Good

The good life is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Carl Rogers

The good life is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Experience

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

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.

Change

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 question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Carl Rogers

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 question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Change

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change.

Carl Rogers

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change.

Change

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl Rogers

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Art

The very essence of the creative is its novelty and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl Rogers

The very essence of the creative is its novelty and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Carl Rogers

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 to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

The good life is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

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.

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 question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am then I can change.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.