Abraham Maslow

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

— Abraham Maslow

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.

— Abraham Maslow

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

— Abraham Maslow

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

— Abraham Maslow

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

— Abraham Maslow

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

— Abraham Maslow

We may define therapy as a search for value.

— Abraham Maslow

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

— Abraham Maslow

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

— Abraham Maslow

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

— Abraham Maslow

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

— Abraham Maslow

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

— Abraham Maslow

The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'

— Abraham Maslow

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

— Abraham Maslow

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

— Abraham Maslow

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

— Abraham Maslow

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable,…

— Abraham Maslow

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil,…

— Abraham Maslow

What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human…

— Abraham Maslow

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the…

— Abraham Maslow

We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is…

— Abraham Maslow

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain…

— Abraham Maslow

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or…

— Abraham Maslow

The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in…

— Abraham Maslow

What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my…

— Abraham Maslow

People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the…

— Abraham Maslow

There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in…

— Abraham Maslow

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at…

— Abraham Maslow

As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that…

— Abraham Maslow

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of…

— Abraham Maslow

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us…

— Abraham Maslow

We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of…

— Abraham Maslow

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

— Abraham Maslow

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

— Abraham Maslow

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

— Abraham Maslow

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.

— Abraham Maslow

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

— Abraham Maslow

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.

— Abraham Maslow

What is life for? Life is for you.

— Abraham Maslow

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

— Abraham Maslow