Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Carl Rogers

Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don’t hurt another’s physical person or property: The creative process is the emergence in action of a novel relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual.

Carl Rogers

From what I have been saying, I trust it is clear that when I can permit realness in myself or sense it or permit it in another, I am very satisfied. When I cannot permit it in myself or fail to permit it in another, I am very distressed.

Carl Rogers

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

Carl Rogers

I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

Carl Rogers

I believe that even our most abstract and philosophical views spring from an intensely personal base.

Carl Rogers

I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.

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

I find it very satisfying when I can be real, when I can be close to whatever it is that is going on within me. I like it when I can listen to myself. To really know what I am experiencing in the moment is by no means an easy thing, but I feel somewhat encouraged because I think that over the years I have been improving at it.

Carl Rogers

I found myself doing this same thing – playing a role of having greater certainty and greater competence than I really possess. I can’t tell you how disgusted with myself I felt as I realized what I was doing: I was not being me, I was playing a part.

Carl Rogers