Occupation: Anthropologist Birth: June 28, 1905 Death: November 26, 1999
It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being..
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message..
Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim forever an….
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 s….
The scientist believes in proof without certainty..
The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying tim….
All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but ….
Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of curves an….
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 ….
Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear p….
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 fa….
The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man..
In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it..
The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional….
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success..
Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world..
The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice..
The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness..
It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable.
It is the function of women to teach men how to be human..
The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception..