Quotes from Karl Menninger

It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

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

Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

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

Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

It is this intangible thing, love in many forms, which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals, which comforts and restores, which works what we have to call - for now - miracles.