Quotes About Development

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

The fact that order and creativity are complementary has been basic to man's cultural development; for he has to internalize order to be able to give external form to his creativity.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

The child shall become father to the man.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

Until the reality of equality between man and woman is fully established and attained, the highest social development of mankind is not possible.

The destiny of man is to be more and more human.