Margaret Mead

The human mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment you're born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

We must not allow the past to dictate the future.

The human species is unique in its ability to create culture.

The only way to predict the future is to create it.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The greatest gift you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

The human race is a single family, and we must learn to live together in peace and harmony.

It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of injustice and cruelty to match the fearful deeds of history, and on the other hand it is to suppose that he has been silent these many years to let us suffer as we do.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Human nature is not almost everywhere the same, but it has almost everywhere been the same.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

The way to Abraham Lincoln's heart was through his stomach.

One of the oldest human needs is to share with others our experiences of the natural world.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are wiser than their elders.

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

Instead of being presented by nature with a fixed set of instincts, we are born with a set of potentialities.

The mind is not sex-typed.