Karl Augustus Menninger Quotes

• Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

  Topics in Inspirational, Love

• One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Listening

• Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Spirit

• What’s done to children, they will do to society.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

• We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

• The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

• Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

• One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

• Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

• Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

  Karl Augustus Menninger

Karl Augustus Menninger (11)

Birth:	22nd July, 1893
Death:	18th July, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Psychologist

About

Born in Topeka, Kansas, the son of Florence Vesta and Charles Frederick Menninger, Menninger attended Washburn University, Indiana University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was accepted to Harvard Medical School, where he graduated cum laude in 1917. While at Washburn, he was a member of the Alpha Delta Fraternity, a local group, and in 1960 inducted into the school's Sagamore Honor Society.

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