Benjamin Spock Quotes

• Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Know, Think

• To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exterminate, Win

• The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Methods, Studied

• Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Child, Feeling

• Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Class, Idea

• In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Children, Country

• I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, War

• I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Measure

• I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opposed, Proud

• Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Senses

• All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

• When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War

• What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parenting

• The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Children, Power

  Tags in Parenting, Parents, Supplies

• Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Doing

• There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother’s age.

  Benjamin Spock

  Topics in Age, Funny

Benjamin Spock (17)

Birth:	2nd May, 1903
Death:	15th March, 1998
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Scientist

About

Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the best-sellers of all time. Throughout its first 52 years, Baby and Child Care was the second-best-selling book, next to the Bible. Its message to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."

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