Ashley Montagu Quotes - Page 3

Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.

The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

No one should be required to see America for the first time.