Quotes from Ashley Montagu

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Hatred is love frustrated.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

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.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

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.

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

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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 principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

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.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable