The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Topic: Change, Self
- Location: Avalanche Lake, Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Margaret Mead
The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.
If we are to achieve 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.
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.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.
I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
