Quote by Margaret Mead
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess. – Margaret Mead

Other quotes by Margaret Mead

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. – Margaret Mead

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Success
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. – Margaret Mead

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Age
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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. – Margaret Mead

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America
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Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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If a mans wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. – Francis Bacon

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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. Its, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television. – Dan Rather

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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them. – Thomas Paine

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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. – Harriet Braiker

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