Home / Quotes / Quote by Abraham Maslow

Quote by Abraham Maslow

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

Quote by Abraham Maslow

Author

Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist born on April 1, 1908, and died on June 8, 1970. He was a pioneer in humanistic psychology and proposed Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which had a profound impact on the field of psychology. more

You May Also Like

“We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.”

Knows Fear Aspect Godlike Peak Experiences

Author:Abraham Maslow

“I'm never going to get married again. Three strikes, you're out. I think if I would try to get married again in California, I have to go to prison, don't I? I think you only get three.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Three Married Prison Strikes California Three Strikes

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.”

“We may define therapy as a search for value.”

May Values Therapy Peak Experiences

Author:Abraham Maslow

“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.”

Humans Growth Change Human Beings Baby Evidence Assuming Active Impulse Reasonable Newborn Actualization Newborn Baby

Author:Abraham Maslow

“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”

Firsts Creativity Creative Food Painting Rate Soup Second Rate

Book:The Maslow Business Reader

Source: The Maslow Business Reader

“Judaism is one of the last of the world's matrilineal philosophies. Matriarchies are always the cultures that patriarchy attacks and decimates, because they don't spend all their money on the military like patriarchy does. They are easy prey.”

World Doe Philosophy Lasts Culture Easy Military Patriarchy Judaism Prey Matriarchy

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Just ten of the Jewish billionaires on this Earth have more than enough to transform the occupied territories into heaven. We can put the 'pal' back in Palestinian.”

Enough Earth Heaven Ten Territory Palestinian Billionaire Pals

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own socks or placing a carton of milk back in the refrigerator after drinking from it.”

Problem Simple Drinking Solve Cosmos Milk Patriarchy Sock Refrigerators

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials.”