Benjamin Spock Quotes

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

~ Benjamin Spock

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

~ Benjamin Spock

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

~ Benjamin Spock

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and his mother's age.

~ Benjamin Spock

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

~ Benjamin Spock

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

~ Benjamin Spock

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.

~ Benjamin Spock

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

~ Benjamin Spock

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

~ Benjamin Spock

People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.

~ Benjamin Spock

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

~ Benjamin Spock

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

~ Benjamin Spock