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The really bright student, the eager questioner, the probing searcher, especially if he is brighter than his teacher, is too often seen as a 'wise guy,' a threat to discipline, a challenger of his teacher's authority.
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| A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | A husband's conviction that his wife is beautiful, or a wife's firm belief that her husband is courageous, to some extent creates the beauty or the courage. This is not so much a perception of something that already exists as a bringing into existence by belief. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Almost all needs, capacities, and talents can be satisfied in a variety of ways. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Another consequence for my thinking of this stress on the twofold nature of man is the realization that some problems must remain eternally insoluble. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Contemporary psychology has mostly studied not-having rather than having, striving rather than fulfillment, frustration rather than gratification, seeking for joy rather than having attained joy, trying to get there rather than being there. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Culture itself is an adaptive tool ... | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Even the 'bad' choice is 'good for' the neurotic chooser. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us! | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | If you love the truth, you'll trust it-that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | If you tell me you have a personality problem, I am not certain until I know you better whether to say 'Good!' or 'I'm sorry.' | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | In the cognition of the peak-experience, the will does not interfere. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | It is possible in the aesthetic experience or the love experience to become so absorbed and 'poured into' the object that the self, in a very real sense, disappears. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | It is quite true that humans live by bread alone-when there is no bread. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | It should be pointed out that any of the physiological needs and the consummatory behavior involved with them serve as channels for all sorts of other needs as well. A person who thinks he is hungry may actually be seeking more for comfort, or dependence, than for vitamins or proteins. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Logical positivism has been a failure. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Man is a perpetually wanting animal. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Partly identity is whatever we say it is. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | People in peak-experiences are most their identities, closest to their real selves, most idiosyncratic. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | People who have been made secure and strong in the earliest years tend to remain secure and strong thereafter in the face of whatever threatens. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | People with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order to feel healthy. Capacity clamors to be used, and cease their clamor only when they are used sufficiently. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Self-actualization is a matter of degree and of frequency rather than an all-or-none affair. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Sickness might consist of not having symptoms when you should. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | The fact is that people are good. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | The good society is one in which virtue pays. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | The human being is simultaneously that which he is and that which he yearns to be. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | The lover perceives in the beloved what no one else can. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | The more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis. Compulsive-obsessive to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | The single holistic principle that binds together the multiplicity of human motives is the tendency for a new and higher need to emerge as the lower need fulfills itself by being sufficiently gratified. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | 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. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Tragedy can sometimes be therapeutic. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Victory depends on whether or not a duelist has the courage to fight until the bitter end. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | We must learn to think holistically rather than atomistically. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | What is tragic and real and unique to the child cannot be laughed at even though it has happened and will happen to millions of others. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave? | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily. | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
| | Who is to say that a lack of love is less important than a lack of vitamins? | | Abraham Maslow quotes |
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