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Carl Rogers Quotes

«The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.»
Author: Carl Rogers | Keywords: curious, just as, paradox
«The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change»
«What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly»
Author: Carl Rogers | About: Character | Keywords: good enough, openly
«The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.»
«When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.»
Author: Carl Rogers | Keywords: pessimistic, The World I
«If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated 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.»
«The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.»
Author: Carl Rogers | Keywords: area, every bit, that much
«The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.»
Author: Carl Rogers | Keywords: novelty
«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.»