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Ashley Montagu

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Sometimes a single quote is enough to make a name memorable. Ashley Montagu has given us several. Their thinking spans from Science to Medical, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Discover 13 of Ashley Montagu's most memorable quotes, ranging across Science, Medical, Happiness, Women, and Success. Among their most shared lines: "The idea is to die young as late as possible."

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

— Ashley Montagu

Alone

All Quotes by 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

Health

“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

Medical

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

— Ashley Montagu

Death

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

— Ashley Montagu

Alone

“One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.”

— Ashley Montagu

Learning

“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.”

— Ashley Montagu

Happiness

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

— Ashley Montagu

Happiness

“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”

— Ashley Montagu

Science

“The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.”

— Ashley Montagu

Women