Ashley Montagu Quotes
Found 18 quotes by
Ashley Montagu
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"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
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Disease
English Scientist
"The Good Book / one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied."
Ashley Montagu
"There are people who see nudity in the crotch of every tree"
Ashley Montagu
Topics:
Nudity
"It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable"
Ashley Montagu
Topics:
Individuals
"The idea is to die young as late as possible."
Ashley Montagu
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English Scientist
"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof."
Ashley Montagu
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English Scientist
"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."
Ashley Montagu
Topics:
English Scientist
Happiness
"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason."
Ashley Montagu
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English Scientist
"Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading."
Ashley Montagu
Topics:
Attitude
"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."
Ashley Montagu
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English Scientist
"Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago."
Ashley Montagu
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English Scientist
Hell
"It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle"
Ashley Montagu
Topics:
Ethics
"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
Topics:
Education
English Scientist
"The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality."
Ashley Montagu
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English Scientist
"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."
Ashley Montagu
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English Scientist
"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity."
Ashley Montagu
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English Scientist
"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
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English Scientist
"The Good Book -- one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied."
Ashley Montagu
Topics:
Bible
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