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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead
What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
The solution to adult problems tomorrow
depends in large measure upon
how our children grow up today.
- Margaret Mead
Nobody has ever asked the nuclear family to live
all by itself in a box the way we do.
With no relatives, no support,
we've put it in an impossible situation.
- Margaret Mead
For the very first time the young are
seeing history being made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Sister is probably the most competitive
relationship within the family,
but once the sisters are grown,
it becomes the strongest relationship.
- Margaret Mead
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born
it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
- Margaret Mead
Instead of needing lots of children,
we need high-quality children.
- Margaret Mead
We are now at a point where we must educate our children
in what no one knew yesterday,
and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
- Margaret Mead
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive
and potentially orderly and constructive.
- Margaret Mead
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
- Margaret Mead
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
- Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success
in terms of the contributions
an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Margaret Mead
Life ... is like a parachute jump:
you have to get it right the first time.
- Margaret Mead
The way to do fieldwork is never to
come up for air until it is all over.
- Margaret Mead
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness
with which one must look and listen,
record in astonishment
and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
- Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil,
but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
Always remember that you are absolutely unique.
Just like everyone else.
- Margaret Mead
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Instead of being presented with stereotypes
by age, sex, color, class, or religion,
children must have the opportunity
to learn that within each range,
some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
- Margaret Mead
One of the oldest human needs is having someone
to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
- Margaret Mead
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
- Margaret Mead
The pains of childbirth were altogether different
from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain.
These were pains one could follow with one's mind.
- Margaret Mead
We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
- Margaret Mead
Prayer does not use up artificial energy,
doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute.
Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
- Margaret Mead
I have a respect for manners as such,
they are a way of dealing with people
you don't agree with or like.
- Margaret Mead
It is an open question whether any behavior
based on fear of eternal punishment
can be regarded as ethical
or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
- Margaret Mead
Thanks to television, for the first time
the young are seeing history made
before it is censored by their elders.
- Margaret Mead
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors,
woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile
and never directly inherited.
- Margaret Mead
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
- Margaret Mead
Women want mediocre men,
and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead
Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Margaret Mead
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values,
we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric,
one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
- Margaret Mead
A city is a place where there is no need to
wait for next week to get the answer to a question,
to taste the food of any country,
to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
- Margaret Mead
Be Utterly and Dependably Unexpected.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend,
one human soul whom we can trust utterly,
who knows the best and worst of us,
and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
- Charles Kingsley
In this world, the greatest courage is to drop the mind aside.
The bravest man is who can see the world
without the barrier of the mind, just as it is.
It is tremendously different, utterly beautiful.
There is nobody who is inferior and there is nobody who is superior -
there are no distinctions.
- Osho
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
- William Shakespeare
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Constant development is the law of life,
and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas
in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting
some false and most pernicious notions about consistency -
and to such a degree that the average man has
turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around
and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized,
where it should be his humiliation.
- Mark Twain
"Mother Teresa Prayer"
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
... Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you
of selfish, ulterior motives;
... Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some
false friends and some true enemies;
... Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
... Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
... Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
... Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
... Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
... Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
We can do no great things - only small things with great love.
- although commonly attributed to Mother Teresa,
who kept a copy of this prayer on
the wall of her Calcutta orphanage,
this prayer was actually written by Kent Keith.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq
was unnecessary and unjust.
And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
- Jimmy Carter
Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.
- Thomas Szasz
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
- William Butler Yeats
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science,
for they often endure long; but false views,
if supported by some evidence, do little harm,
for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
- Charles Darwin
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