90 Quotes by Ashley Montagu

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.

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

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

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 evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

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

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.

...the original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live...