Jane Goodall

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one’s self-approval.

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

Branching streams cannot compare to the source.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.