We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. Abraham Maslow More Quotes by Abraham Maslow More Quotes From Abraham Maslow Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. Abraham Maslow itself become activity education With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is. Abraham Maslow place growth humanity tree I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering. Abraham Maslow new someone me walking Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person. Abraham Maslow without person good loyalty With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends. Abraham Maslow boy friends childhood school If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna. Abraham Maslow think you hopeless evil It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body. Abraham Maslow rest man food beauty Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical. Abraham Maslow human-being human being difficult