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Quotes from All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten — Robert Fulghum

born 1937 United States

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Be aware of wonder. And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned — the biggest word of all — LOOK.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

It’s almost impossible to go through life all alone.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. These are the things you already know

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

Some assembly is always required.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don’t forget.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think. This is true for kids and adults — for schoolrooms and nations.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Fulghum (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.