Quotes by Carl Rogers

I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but that I be dependably real...Can I be expressive enough as a person that what I am will be communicated unambiguously?

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

I believe that the testing of the students 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.

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

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.

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