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11 quotes by Karl A. Menninger

Karl Augustus Menninger (July 22, 1893 – July 18, 1990) was an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

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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.

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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

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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... →

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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.

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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.

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