Quotes About Development

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

All men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Man is something that is to be surpassed.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.

The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.

Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

MAN'S ONLY LIMITATION, within reason, LIES IN HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF HIS IMAGINATION.

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

I feel like I went from being a boy to being a man, in some respects, through the help of Dustin Hoffman.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Men are like wine,--not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.