Cognitive Therapy Quotes:

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 552, 1888.

topic: Facts, Cognitive Therapy, Interpretation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

topic: Men, World, Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Thinking, Mind, Cognitive Therapy, Inclination, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

- Thomas Szasz

source: Thomas Stephen Szasz (1989). “Law, Liberty, and Psychiatry: An Inquiry Into the Social Uses of Mental Health Practices”, p.255, Syracuse University Press

topic: Life Is, Should, Cognitive Therapy, Life Is Not Worth Living, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The Essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.308

topic: Evil, Opinion, Cognitive Therapy, Relish, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Peace, Meditation Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

- Aaron T. Beck

source: "Cognitive Therapy of Depression". Book by Aaron T. Beck, 1978.

topic: Stress, Self, Belief, Cognitive Therapy

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Truth, Intelligent, Greatness, Roman Emperor, Limited Perspective

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

- Ayelet Waldman

topic: Children, Order, Bipolar, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

- Margaret J. Wheatley

topic: Different, Gains, Easier, Complex Systems, Different Interpretations

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [259]

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Happiness, Horatio, Either Or

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Happiness, Laughter, Men, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

- Milton H. Erickson

topic: Way, Patient, Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Soul, Fancy, Arise, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'

- Alfred Korzybski

topic: Identity, Negative, Fundamentals, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Hate, Self, Taught, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3240, Delphi Classics

topic: Heart, Eye, Tragedy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.

- Irving Kirsch

topic: Thinking, People, Technique, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.

- Jack Kornfield

topic: Buddhist, Firsts, Therapists, Cognitive, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

- Dag Hammarskjold

source: "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.

topic: Nursing, Nurse, Important, Inspirational Nurse, Inspirational Nursing

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

- Euripides

topic: Missing, Brain, Mind, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

source: Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.69, Xist Publishing

topic: Done, Ruins, Neglect, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: Gabriel García Márquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the role of a writer, www.farnamstreetblog.com. 1982.

topic: Reality, Literature, Patterns, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Power, Reality, Political, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Therapy

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

- Eric Butterworth

topic: May, Matter, Therapy, Only Thing That Matters, Things That Matter

The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Most of cognitive therapy has now adopted a similar idea. On the other hand, the relationship part of psychoanalysis - where you must have a deep, emotional relationship with the client - will, I think, get kicked in the teeth one of these days.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Emotional, Thinking, Ideas, Deep Emotional, Cognitive Therapy

One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

- Torbjorn Tannsjo

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Thinking, Other Cultures, Issues, Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In other words, if we can learn to think about other people in a more positive and realistic way, it will be far easier to resolve conflicts and develop rewarding personal and professional relationships.

- David D. Burns

source: "Feeling Good Together: The Secret to Making Troubled Relationships Work". Book by David D. Burns, 2008.

topic: Thinking, Ideas, People, Cognitive Therapy, Professional Relationships

I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

- Gregory A. Boyd

topic: Prayer, Book, Reading, Cognitive Therapy, Devotional