Karl A. Menninger
Karl A. Menninger
Karl Augustus Menningerwas an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth22 July 1893
CountryUnited States of America
Karl A. Menninger quotes about
passion joy unrest
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
inspirational reality honestly
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
attitude important facts
Attitudes are much more important than facts.
moving listening want
The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.
love-you acceptance love-is
Self love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.
fishes happenings hard
It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.
fear wish overcoming-failure
Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.
wise wisdom way
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
health three four
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.
hate anger ignorance
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
brother mean law
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
teacher appreciation retirement
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
children years people
People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.
love-you wells refuse
Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us....