Ashley Montagu Quotes (23 Quotes)

Psychosclerosis the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

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

There are people who see nudity in the crotch of every tree

Hatred is love frustrated.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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.

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all living things whatsoever.

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of human spirit.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

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.

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