Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

Thomas Stephen Szasz Quotes

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

The proverb warns that, ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him...

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

— Thomas Stephen Szasz
Courage About Thinking

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

— Thomas Stephen Szasz
Wise Forgiveness Letting Go

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

— Thomas Stephen Szasz
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