Erik Erikson Quotes

It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

~ Erik Erikson

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

~ Erik Erikson

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

~ Erik Erikson

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.

~ Erik Erikson

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.

~ Erik Erikson

The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

~ Erik Erikson

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

~ Erik Erikson

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

~ Erik Erikson

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

~ Erik Erikson