All Abraham Maslow Quotes
- Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called… Becomes
- What is life for? Life is for you. Healing
- One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. Failing
- The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human. Characteristic
- It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. Actual
- The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He… Active
- The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. Consider
- When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth. Constraints
- The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being. Constructed
- Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection. Achievable
- One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. Education
- Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just,… Been
- False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness. Anger
- We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. Afraid
- We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general. Deep
- Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with… Abstraction
- Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to… Bad
- Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for. Allows
- There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly,… Achievement
- A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. Child
- Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment. Apparently
- Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction... Abstraction
- We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often… All
- The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or… Appear
- Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. Communication