All Abraham Maslow Quotes
- Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. Bad
- Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. Appreciation
- Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment. Alive
- There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,… Angry
- Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth. All
- What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times… Conflict
- The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as… Awe
- One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Back Toward
- Self-actualizing people must be what they can be. Actualizing
- As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person… Actualizing
- One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. Cannot Choose
- [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts… All
- Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people… Actualizing
- We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. Calling
- Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get… Accomplished
- Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing. Deeply
- Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find… Awfully
- We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that… Beings
- A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a… Actualization
- When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of… Appear
- We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great… Afraid
- Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express… Become Poetic
- All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil. All
- We do what we are and we are what we do.... Funny
- What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave? Adjusted