Ashley Montague Famous Quotes



The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

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


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"Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going."
Laurence J Peter

"Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk."
Oswald Mosley

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.
Saint Augustine

Dare to be naive.
Richard Buckminster Fuller

"Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue."
Ambrose Bierce

"Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities."
John A Rassias

Some people make headlines while others make history.
Philip ElmerDeWitt

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
James Oppenheim

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.
George F Gilder

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
William Shakespeare