Carl Rogers Quotes

• Unconditional positive regard.

  Carl Rogers

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• 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.

   

  Carl Rogers

  Topics in Attitude, Knowledge

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Learning, Choice, Choosing

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

  Carl Rogers

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Novelty, Hence, Essence, Creative, Standard, Very, Which, Judge

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

  Carl Rogers

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  Tags in How, Educated, Only, Change, Learn, Learned, Person

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

  Carl Rogers

  Topics in Self Respect

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth, Acceptance

• With the price of life these days, you’ve got to get everything for free you can.

  Carl Rogers

• When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

  Carl Rogers

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

  Carl Rogers

• 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

• 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 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

• 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.

  Carl Rogers

Carl Rogers (12)

Birth:	8th January, 1902
Death:	4th February, 1987
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist, Professor, Psychotherapist

About

Carl Rogers was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He was an American psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach to psychology. He is widely considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his pioneering research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association in 1956. He graduated from University of Wisconsin and enrolled at Union Theological Seminary. After two years he left the seminary to attend Teachers College, Columbia University, obtaining an MA in 1928 and a PhD in 1931. In 1947 he was elected President of the American Psychological Association. While a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago.

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