90 Quotes by Ashley Montagu

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

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

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

The measure of man’s humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

The behavioral trait most frequently associated with the long-lived is placidity.

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

Swearing, because it is so little understood, is still an equivocal form of conduct without social sanction. That is to say swearing is socially tolerated in any form.

The many sophisticated forms of swearing we shall consider attest to the fact that since man first learned to speak imagination and inventiveness have been outstanding characteristics of his speech.

Mental health is the ability to love, the ability to work, the ability to play, and the ability to use your mind soundly.