Quotes by Benjamin Spock

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

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

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

“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?”

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

“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...”

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

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

“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 nu...”

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

“There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age. ”

“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...”

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

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

“I really learned it all from mothers.”

“I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.”

“People have said, You've turned your back on pediatrics. I said, No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”

“I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.”

“You know more than you think you do.”

“Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.”