Quotes by Ashley Montagu

Ashley Montagu

Ashley Montagu

British-American anthropologist

Lived from: 1905 - 1999

Category: Scientists Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 28 june 1905 Died: 26 november 1999

  • 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.

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  • 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.
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  • Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.
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  • Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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  • Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.
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  • 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.
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  • One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
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  • The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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  • The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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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.
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  • The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.
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  • The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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  • The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
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  • The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
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  • The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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  • 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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Ashley Montagu?

The two most famous quotes from Ashley Montagu are:

  • "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."
  • "Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties."

When did Ashley Montagu live?

Ashley Montagu was born in 1905 and died in the year 1999.