Carl Rogers

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another’s learning.

Carl Rogers

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

Carl Rogers

Man’s inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

Carl Rogers

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

Carl Rogers

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

Carl Rogers

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

Carl Rogers

A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.

Carl Rogers

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

Carl Rogers

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

Carl Rogers

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Carl Rogers