What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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