Quote

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by facts but by our interpretation of the facts.

Alfred Adler

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
Psychiatrist
Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
Facts
Influenced
Interpretation
Obvious

More quotes by Alfred Adler

Image
I am grateful for the idea that has used me.
Alfred Adler
Image
The mathematical life of a mathematician is short. Work rarely improves after the age of twenty-five or thirty. If little has been accomplished by then, little will ever be accomplished.
Alfred Adler
Image
In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.
Alfred Adler
Image
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Alfred Adler
Image
Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
Alfred Adler
Image
Follow your heart always, and remember to take your head along with you.
Alfred Adler
Image
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
Alfred Adler
Image
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler
Image
Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.
Alfred Adler
Image
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Alfred Adler
Image
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
Alfred Adler
Image
Every neurotic is partly in the right.
Alfred Adler
Image
All failures are so because they lack social interest.
Alfred Adler
Image
A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority and you must deal with him from that point of view.
Alfred Adler
Image
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
Alfred Adler
Image
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Alfred Adler
Image
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.
Alfred Adler
Image
Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.
Alfred Adler
Image
There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.
Alfred Adler
Image
The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.
Alfred Adler