Ashley Montagu's Quotes

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

Ashley Montagu

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

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

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

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

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

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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