Margaret Mead Quotes

Damiatrix Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 589

I have heard some of the most insightful quotes being spoken by Margaret Mead. Here are a few that caught my attention because they either made me think, made me laugh, or both.~~Maia

*You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

*Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

*What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

*It is an open question whether any behaviour based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

*It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

*It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is something that we must hold in our arms and care for.

*Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

*I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

*Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

*When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

*I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.

*I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

*Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.

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