Quotes by Margaret Mead
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”— Margaret Mead
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”— 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
“I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.”— Margaret Mead
“I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.”— Margaret Mead
“The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends in large measure upon the way our children grow up today.”— Margaret Mead
“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
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”— 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 inspiration and some are warnings.”— Margaret Mead