Carl R. Rogers: Direction

Carl R. Rogers was American psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on direction.
Carl R. Rogers: 56   quotes 75   likes

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

Carl R. Rogers

Person to person: The problem of being human: A new trend in psychology (1967)
Source: page 187.

Positive , Life

“Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming in me. Neither the Bible nor the prophets -- neither Freud nor research -- neither the revelations of God nor man -- can take precedence over my own direct experience. My experience is not authoritative because it is infallible. It is the basis of authority because it can always be checked in new primary ways. In this way its frequent error or fallibility is always open to correction.”

Carl R. Rogers

On Becoming a Person (1961)
Source: page 23-24

God , Truth , Way , Error

“It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.”

Carl R. Rogers

On Becoming a Person (1961)
Source: page 11

Problem , Hurt

“Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future”

Carl R. Rogers

Carl Rogers on Personal Power (1977)
Source: page 113

Freedom , Future

“If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.”

Carl R. Rogers

On Becoming a Person (1961)
Source: page # not specified

Knowledge , Learning