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Top 15 Franz Boas Quotes (2025 Update)

Franz Boas Quote: “The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.”

1. “The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.”

Franz Boas Quote: “The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.”

2. “The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.”

Franz Boas Quote: “There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.”

3. “There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.”

Franz Boas Quote: “It would seem that mythological worlds have been built up only to be shattered again, and that new worlds were built from the fragments.”

4. “It would seem that mythological worlds have been built up only to be shattered again, and that new worlds were built from the fragments.”

Franz Boas Quote: “The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.”

5. “The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.”

Franz Boas Quote: “I believe the present state of our knowledge justifies us in saying that, while individuals differ, biological differences are small. There is no reason to believe that one race is by nature so much more intelligent, endowed with great will power, or emotionally more stable than another that the difference would materially influence its culture.”

6. “I believe the present state of our knowledge justifies us in saying that, while individuals differ, biological differences are small. There is no reason to believe that one race is by nature so much more intelligent, endowed with great will power, or emotionally more stable than another that the difference would materially influence its culture.”

Franz Boas Quote: “Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.”

7. “Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.”

Franz Boas Quote: “No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.”

8. “No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.”

Franz Boas Quote: “My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.”

9. “My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.”

Franz Boas Quote: “It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.”

10. “It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.”

Franz Boas Quote: “Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.”

11. “Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.”

Franz Boas Quote: “I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.”

12. “I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.”

Franz Boas Quote: “We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.”

13. “We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.”

Franz Boas Quote: “In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.”

14. “In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.”

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Franz Boas Quote: “My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.”

15. “My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.”

Franz Boas Quote: “I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.”

16. “I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.”

Franz Boas Quote: “The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.”

17. “The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.”

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