Quotes About Development

The peoples of civilization see their wretchedness increase in direct proportion to the advance of industry.

Understand that at times, you will feel uncomfortable. View that discomfort as progress; it's part of how you overcome your fears.

Evolution: that last step was a doozy!

Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.

As long as you're green, you're growing; as soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

Menopause is just Puberty's evil older sister.

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.

The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.

#WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

All things are like exposed photographic plates that have no visible image on them till they have been developed.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it.

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

...the new life of psychiatry is with us...

The radio is, indeed, a great blessing of the modern times. It has become a necessity now.

Instead of being born again, why not just grow up?

I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.

You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them how to fly in formation.

Potente Gehirne stärken sich nicht durch Milch, sondern durch Alkaloide.

Jugend hat keine Tugend

When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just the lack of food, shelter, and clothing. Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.