B. F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Better contraceptives will control population only if people will use them. A nuclear holocaust can be prevented only if the conditions under which nations make war can be changed. The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

There are some sick people in this world.

When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

My entire life can be described in one sentence. It didn’t go as planned and that’s OK.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Man is what he believes.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn’t correct. We all start with all there is, it’s how we use it that makes things possible.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.