The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted out in song or dance, or that Uncle George was eaten by a croc over there, don’t go there to swim, then those young people don’t have to find out by trial and error.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

My life has been very full.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn’t been the case for teaching.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

You’re unlikely to discover something new without a lot of practice on old stuff, but further, you should get a heck of a lot of fun out of working out funny relations and interesting things.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

If we don’t know life, how can we know death?

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

I’m not afraid to make mistakes.