Abraham Maslow

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

— Abraham Maslow

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

— Abraham Maslow

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

— Abraham Maslow

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

— Abraham Maslow

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

— Abraham Maslow

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

— Abraham Maslow

We do what we are and we are what we do…

— Abraham Maslow

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

— 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

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a…

— Abraham Maslow

If the only tool you have is a hammer,you tend to see every problem as a nail.

— Abraham Maslow

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

— Abraham Maslow

During all my first twenty years, I was depressed, terribly unhappy, lonely, isolated (and self-rejecting).

— Abraham Maslow

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

— Abraham Maslow

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

— 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

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

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own…

— Abraham Maslow

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of…

— Abraham Maslow

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways,…

— Abraham Maslow

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments,…

— Abraham Maslow

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some…

— 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

“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without…

— 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

I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him…

— Abraham Maslow

Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work… A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which…

— Abraham Maslow

The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's…

— Abraham Maslow

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to…

— Abraham Maslow

There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked…

— Abraham Maslow

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.

— Abraham Maslow

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

— Abraham Maslow

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

— Abraham Maslow

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

— Abraham Maslow

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

— Abraham Maslow

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.

— Abraham Maslow

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

— Abraham Maslow

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

— Abraham Maslow