Margaret Mead on Faith
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Margaret Mead, catalogued under faith, with dates where available.
This page displays 4 quotations attributed to Margaret Mead and filed under "faith" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Margaret Mead, entry #58755: "I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
Attributed to Margaret Mead, entry #228424: "I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."
4 Quotes by Margaret Mead on Faith
"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world."
"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."
"We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country."
"Our young people are faced by a series of different groups which believe different things and advocate different practices, and to each of which some trusted friend or relative may belong. So a girl's father may be a Presbyterian, an imperialist, a vegetarian, a teetotaller, with a strong literary preference for Edmund Burke, a believer in the open shop and a high tariff, who believes that women's place is in the home, that young girls should wear corsets, not roll their stockings, not smoke, nor go riding with young men in the evening. But her mother's father may be a Low Episcopalian, a believer in high living, a strong advocate of States' Rights and the, who reads Rabelais, likes to go to musical shows and horse races..."