Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing.

Quote by Abraham Maslow

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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it...

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it...

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the...

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the...

We may define therapy as a search for value.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything...

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything...

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like...

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like...

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I...

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I...

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem...

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem...

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest...

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest...

The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character,...

The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character,...

The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a...

The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a...

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could...

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could...

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up...

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up...

If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will...

If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will...

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like...

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like...

I like to pretend that i'm okay because I don't want to annoy people with...

I like to pretend that i'm okay because I don't want to annoy people with...

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.