13 Quotes By Ashley Montagu


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

The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu on death

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

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

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.
Ashley Montagu on happiness

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.
Ashley Montagu on health

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

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

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.
Ashley Montagu on medical

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.
Ashley Montagu on science

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
Ashley Montagu on science

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

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