Top 39 Menninger Quotes
#1. Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.
Thomas Szasz
#2. Fears are educated into us," Dr. Karl Menninger once wrote, "and they can, if we wish, be educated out.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#3. It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.
Karl A. Menninger
#5. 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
#6. One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Karl A. Menninger
#7. Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.
Karl A. Menninger
#8. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Karl A. Menninger
#9. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.
Karl A. Menninger
#10. TO THOSE WHO WOULD USE INTELLIGENCE IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DEATH - TO STRENGTHEN THE WILL TO LIVE AGAINST THE WISH TO DIE, AND TO REPLACE WITH LOVE THE BLIND COMPULSION TO GIVE HOSTAGES TO HATRED AS THE PRICE OF LIVING.
Karl A. Menninger
#12. Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us ...
Karl A. Menninger
#13. 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.
Karl A. Menninger
#14. Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
Karl A. Menninger
#15. 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
#16. It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you.
William C. Menninger
#17. Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
Karl A. Menninger
#18. Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
Karl A. Menninger
#19. 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.
Karl A. Menninger
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.
Karl A. Menninger
#23. 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
#25. Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
Karl A. Menninger
#26. Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken ...
Karl A. Menninger
#27. Psychoanalysis has changed American psychology from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us, and the new and different concept of illness and health.
Karl A. Menninger
#29. Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out.
Karl A. Menninger
#30. It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.
William C. Menninger
#31. Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.
Charles Frederick Menninger
#32. To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.
Karl A. Menninger
#33. Therefore, and Donahue was loath to admit it, the only explanation for the position of Kennedy's exit wound was that the shot had not come from the right rear but from the left rear, from a second gunman located somewhere over the President's left shoulder.
Bonar Menninger
#34. We have come to see that just as the child must learn to love wisely, so he must learn to hate expeditiously, to turn destructive tendencies away from himself toward enemies that actually threaten him rather than toward the friendly and the defenseless, the more usual victims of destructive energy.
Karl A. Menninger
#35. The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to supply their satisfaction usually find boredom instead.
William C. Menninger
#36. Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
William C. Menninger
#38. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius.
Karl A. Menninger
