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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."

“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

All Quotes by Ashley Montagu

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

— Ashley Montagu

Women

“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

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

— Ashley Montagu

Death

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

— Ashley Montagu

Alone

“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

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

— Ashley Montagu

Science

“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

“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