Carl R. Rogers: Quotes about change

Carl R. Rogers was American psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on change.

Carl R. Rogers: 56 quotes83 likes

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

Carl R. Rogers quote: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

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

Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

“We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.”

Source: On Becoming a Person

“If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual”

Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

“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?”

“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.”

Source: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy