List of Ashley Montagu Quotes

No One Should Be Required To See America For The First Time.

The Eskimos Live Among Ice All Their Lives But Have No Single Word For Ice.

In Victorian Times The Purpose Of Life Was To Develop A Personality Once And For All And Then Stand On It.

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 Cultured Man Is An Artist, An Artist In Humanity.

Hell Has Been Described As A Pocket Edition Of Chicago.

The Indications Are That Swearing Preceded The Development Of Cursing. That Is, Expletives, Maledictions, Exclamations, And Imprecations Of The Immediately Explosive Or Vituperative Kind Preceded The Speechmaking And Later Rituals Involved In The Deliberate Apportioning Of The Fate Of An Enemy. Swearing Of The Former Variety Is From The Lips Only, But The Latter Is From The Heart. Damn It! Is Not That Same As Damn You!

The Scientist Believes In Proof Without Certainty, The Bigot In Certainty Without Proof.

You Certainly Can't Tell Anything From The Microscopic Structure Of The Brain Whether The Person Was An Idiot Or A Genius.

... The Main Principle By Which Human Beings Must Guide The Future Course Of Their Development Is Love.

Human Communication, 'as The Saying Goes, Is A Clash Of Symbols' It Covers A Multitude Of Signs. But It Is More Than Media And Messages, Information And Persuasion; It Also Meets A Deeper Need And Serves A Higher Purpose. Whether Clear Or Garbled, Tumultuous Or Silent, Deliberate Or Fatally Inadvertent, Communication Is The Ground Of Meeting And The Foundation Of Community. It Is, In Short, The Essential Human Connection.

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.