One goes through school, college, medical school and ones internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. – Ashley Montagu
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 ones earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. – Ashley Montagu
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family gets together alone. – Ashley Montagu
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. – Ashley Montagu
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. – Ashley Montagu
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
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
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. – Ashley Montagu
Every human being is a problem in search of a solution. – Ashley Montagu
The idea is to die young as late as possible. – Ashley Montagu
