Quotes About Development

What saved me, as I now see, was that it turned to something else altogether. It didn't last as suspense - it was superseded by horrible proofs.

was after all a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only by a vigorous jerk.

It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown flower is in the small tight bud, and I just took the course, I just transferred him to the climate, that blighted him once and for ever.

No adult would have done what Bobby did -- but a child is of a different species. By adult standards, a child is not wholly sane.

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience

Better keep the young on lemons and lavender until they've reached the age of discretion.

What we do belongs to what we are, and what we are is what becomes of us.

The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do.

There are no birds in last year's nest.

The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -

Technology serves to institute new, more effective, and more pleasant forms of social control and social cohesion. The totalitarian tendency of these controls seems to assert itself in still another sense—by spreading to the less developed and even to the pre-industrial areas of the world, and by creating similarities in the development of capitalism and communism.

Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.

If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the course of untold millions of years, give origin to the human race.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

and yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.

The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.

Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.

Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that.

I couldn't have recorded this record 15 years ago. My voice didn't have the depth to pull these songs off.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.