Abraham Maslow Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Giving Up, Selfish, Perfect

• Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.

  Abraham Maslow

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Needs

• Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

  Abraham Maslow

  Science, Human Nature, Humans

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

• The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

  Abraham Maslow

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Essence

  Hung-Min Chiang, Abraham Harold Maslow (1969). “The healthy personality: readings”

• We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

  Abraham Maslow

  Remember, Human Nature, Humans

• We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.

  Abraham Maslow

  Often Is, Humanity, Fundamentals

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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