Carl Rogers Quotes

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

What is important to me is not the truth outside myself, but the truth within myself.

Kierkegaard also said that truth is 'subjective'. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are 'true for me'.

No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people. I think people's interactions with art are their own, and will be far more interesting and sophisticated than anything that I could come up with.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

What I state as certain is certain for me. It has approved itself as such in my experience. Let others consult their experience, and see how far it tallies with that which is here set forth.

I do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone.