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Psychologist

Sidney Jourard was a prominent psychologist known for his research on self-expression and interpersonal communication. His work has had a profound impact on understanding how humans express themselves through verbal and non-verbal means.

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Famous Sidney Jourard Quotes

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

Trying Deception Deceiving

Author:Sidney Jourard

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

Grows Growth Surprise Readiness

Book:DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF

Source: DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF

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

Self Form Loss Health Illness His Loss

Author:Sidney Jourard

“Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.”

People Thinking Way Want Feels Truth Failing Accepted Mars

Author:Sidney Jourard

“We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.”

Real Self Understanding Loses Protect Criticism Lonely Crowds Protection Rejection Family And Friends Misunderstood Steep Real Self Camouflage

Author:Sidney Jourard

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

People World Self Wonder Ready Concepts Amazement

Book:DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF

Source: DISCLOSING MAN TO HIMSELF

“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.”

Men World Way Problem Goal Projects Tasks Pursue

Author:Sidney Jourard

“Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.”

Self Seems Causes Goal Justice Talent Products Commitment Active Quests Actualization

Author:Sidney Jourard

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

Important Self Reason Disclosure Self Disclosure

Author:Sidney Jourard

“A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we now are, or shall we seek instead to remain an enigma, an uncertain quantity , wishing to be seen as something we are not?”

Knows Men Moments Choices Wish Fellows Permit Quantity Uncertain Fellow Man Enigma

Author:Sidney Jourard

“The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of that which is uniquely himself. He makes himself naked, recording his nakedness in the written word. Herein lies some of the terror which frequently freezes a writer, preventing him from producing. Herein, too, lies some of the courage that must be entailed in letting others learn how one has experienced or is experiencing the world.”

World Love Giving Writing Moments Lying Common Written Bears Flow Experience Terror Naked Productive Freeze Preventing Written Word Acts Of Love Experiencing The World

Author:Sidney Jourard

“We encourage people to believe that there is only one identity, one role, one way for them to be, one value for them to fulfill, rather than a host of possible 'incarnations' to be lived in a lifetime.”

People Way Believe Values Roles Identity Lifetime One Way Host Mentor Incarnation Mentoring

Author:Sidney Jourard

“You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you have engaged in enough mutual disclosure of self to be able anticipate how he will react and what part he will play?”

Knows Persons Ends Self Enough Play Able Common Engaged Mutual Teamwork Anticipate Disclosure

Author:Sidney Jourard

About the Author

Born: January 21, 1926
Died: December 2, 1974
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 13

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