Karl A. Menninger Quotes

Attitudes are more important than facts.

I think perception is important.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Attitudes are more important than intelligence.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

I think that ultimately your age is determined by your attitude. It's not the number; it's not how many wrinkles you have on your face. It's the energy that you project.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.

Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to perception - what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional response to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms - what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

Now, none of this is to say that the truth isn’t important. The truth obviously exists. It’s at the core—or the search for the truth—is at the core of some of our greatest human achievements. It can animate and inspire us to do, learn and create great things. But I think in our messy human hearts, we also know that the truth is something of a fickle mistress and that the beauty of the truth is often in the struggle. It’s the reason that we have so many sublime chronicles of the human experience, because we have so many different truths to be explored…. For many of us, truth is what we make when we merge facts about the world with our beliefs about the world. Each of us has our own truth and it’s probably a good one.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Life's all about perceptions.

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

If you would judge, understand.