Sidney Jourard Quotes

Perhaps the most important reason for self-disclosure is that without it we cannot truly love.

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed.

The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow.

We learn to deceive ourselves while we are trying to deceive others.

This loss of self contributes to illness in its myriad forms.