Quotes About Development

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

The child must teach the man.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

They become what they think. We will become [only] by [degrees].

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject.