Top 43 Quotes by Margaret Mead

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.

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

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.

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.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

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

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.