Ashley Montagu Quotes (12 quotations)
1. Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially. - Ashley Montagu
2. He knows that human beings are still learning, by trial and error, how to be human and that many fall by the way. He knows that compassionate understanding and sympathy is the approach of the humane, while blame and censoriousness is the approach of the insufficiently humane. - Ashley Montagu
3. Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. - Ashley Montagu
4. I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Ashley Montagu
5. 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
6. 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
7. The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity. - Ashley Montagu
8. 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
9. The idea is to die young as late as possible. - Ashley Montagu
10. The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. In the societies of the Western world compassionate intelligence is encouraged in girls - in boys it is tabu. The tabu on tenderness in which boys are conditioned, the emphasis on "manliness," "machoism," plays havoc with the male's capacity for compassionate intelligence. Tenderness is considered to be feminine, and that is sufficient to remove it from the repertoire of masculine behavior. Indeed, things have reached such a pass in the Western world that many men seem to have lost all understanding of its meaning. The masculine world would substitute for it the idea of "justice." The difficulty with that is that there is not much compassion in their justice, and justice without compassion is not justice at all. - Ashley Montagu
11. The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. - Ashley Montagu
12. 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
2. He knows that human beings are still learning, by trial and error, how to be human and that many fall by the way. He knows that compassionate understanding and sympathy is the approach of the humane, while blame and censoriousness is the approach of the insufficiently humane. - Ashley Montagu
3. Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason. - Ashley Montagu
4. I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary while the greater ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Ashley Montagu
5. 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
6. 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
7. The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity. - Ashley Montagu
8. 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
9. The idea is to die young as late as possible. - Ashley Montagu
10. The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever. In the societies of the Western world compassionate intelligence is encouraged in girls - in boys it is tabu. The tabu on tenderness in which boys are conditioned, the emphasis on "manliness," "machoism," plays havoc with the male's capacity for compassionate intelligence. Tenderness is considered to be feminine, and that is sufficient to remove it from the repertoire of masculine behavior. Indeed, things have reached such a pass in the Western world that many men seem to have lost all understanding of its meaning. The masculine world would substitute for it the idea of "justice." The difficulty with that is that there is not much compassion in their justice, and justice without compassion is not justice at all. - Ashley Montagu
11. The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. - Ashley Montagu
12. 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
