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Karl A. Menninger Quotes

Type:
Psychologist Quotes
Category:
American Psychologist Quotes
Year of Birth:
1893
Year of Death:
1990
Nationality:
American
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Karl A. Menninger

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
Karl A. Menninger

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Karl A. Menninger

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Karl A. Menninger

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.
Karl A. Menninger

Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Karl A. Menninger

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.
Karl A. Menninger

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Karl A. Menninger

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
Karl A. Menninger

What's done to children, they will do to society.
Karl A. Menninger


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