Quotes About Development

Books ... rarely, if ever, talk about what children can make of themselves, about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Civilization is a movement - not a condition; a voyage - not a harbour.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Time, in the turning-over of days, works change, for better or worse.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

'Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Man errs as long as he struggles.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something.... One fails forward toward success.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.