# Quote — Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

> 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:

- Author: [Robert Fulghum](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum.md)
- Book: [All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-fulghum/all-i-really-need-to-know-i-learned-in-kindergarten.md)
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## More from this book

> 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.

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> Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all — the whole world — had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
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> And it is still true, no matter how old you are — when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

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> I recall an old Sufi story of a good man who was granted one wish by God. The man said he would like to go about doing good without knowing about it. God granted his wish. And then God decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish to all human beings.
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> And so it has been to this day.

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