Quotes About Development

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

For most purposes, a man with a machine is better than a man without a machine.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Forget the brother and resume the man.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

If you do microcredit with men, they tend to quickly drink it. They don't pay you back.

Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy." – Chloe Traeger

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.