Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

—Jane Goodall

About Jane Goodall

Portrait of Jane Goodall

Dame Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall ( GUUD-awl; 3 April 1934 – 1 October 2025) was an English primatologist and anthropologist. Regarded as a pioneer in primate ethology, and described by many publications as "the world's preeminent chimpanzee expert", she was best known for more than six decades of field research on...

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There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how its emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.

—Jane Goodall

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.

—Jane Goodall

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

—Jane Goodall

People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.

—Jane Goodall

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.

—Jane Goodall

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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril.

—J. William Fulbright

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.

—Craig Newmark

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

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