Abraham Maslow Quotes

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

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

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human b...

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... ...

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own ...

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all t...

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have...

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. ...

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that ...

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

What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans toget...

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as...

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this t...

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at pe...

A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he to be at peace with himse...

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection a...

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taug...