251 Quotes by Abraham Maslow

The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you’ve got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself.

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 cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing.

Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don’t want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

It is vital that people “count their blessings:” to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

I used up all my sick days, so I’m calling in dead.

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within – and make the point: This can be done.

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people’s highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

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