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Carl Rogers

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Carl Rogers is the kind of thinker who lets the words do the talking — and they talk volumes. Their thinking spans from Change to Teacher, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Our collection holds 11 quotes from Carl Rogers, each offering a different angle on Change, Teacher, Relationship, Life, and Learning. Start here and see if you agree: "The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."

“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

Change

All Quotes by 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

Change

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

— Carl Rogers

Art

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

— Carl Rogers

Change

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

— Carl Rogers

Change

“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

Learning

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

— Carl Rogers

Good

“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

Experience