Abraham Maslow

The most important learning experiences are those that cannot be taught.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.

We are not strong enough to be honest with ourselves.

Dispassionate, objective science is a myth.

It looks as if the organism is always striving to actualize its own potentialities.

The more we learn about man, the more we realize how much more there is to learn.

Growth is a series of choices between safety and danger, between dependence and independence, between regression and progression.

All of life is a learning experience.

We must teach people to be human, to be fully human, to be more human.

The more we know about human nature, the more we realize how much we don't know.

The human being is a wanting animal.

We are not strong enough to be honest.

It seems that the human being has a natural tendency toward growth, toward self-actualization, toward health, toward the actualization of his own potentialities.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

We are afraid of our highest possibilities.

The good society is one in which virtue is rewarded.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

It is as if Freud supplied us with the sick half of psychology and we must now fill it out with the healthy half.

The human being is so constructed that he can only find true happiness in the full use of his faculties.