Quotes About Development

If I try for something less I may in the end attain something more

A tribe is like a child," he said once, in that thin piping old-man's voice, which every day seemed more like a bird's—and then he coughed. When he recovered, he spoke again. "Yes, a tribe is like a child. You can show it the way by which it should grow up, and perhaps you can direct it a little, but in the end the child will go his own way, and so will the tribe.

a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

The godswife thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.

The day you make them all is the day you stop improving. - Alleras

Every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better.

Kill the boy and let the man be born.

Todo hombre y toda doncella empiezan siendo piezas, aunque algunos se crean jugadores.

Syrio dice que cada herida es una lección, y que cada lección te lleva un paso más allá.

If I'm not learning, check my pulse!

The unleavened bread of knowledge will sustain life, but it is dull fare unless it is leavened with the yeast of personality.

wrote a book proving that all enduring gifts to society came from those races whose skin color was not exceedingly pale, pointing out that the Norwegians and other Nordic peoples had been in savagery when Egypt and Crete were at the height of their development.

revolution was taking place in Negro society.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations

A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.