Quotes About Development

it's not unusual in history for the solution to one problem to become the root of the next one.

A human child loses almost all the memories of the first years of its life, and its long-term memories only take root in its second or third year of life; everything before that is lost, so that the child cannot remember the beginning of life.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

The essential question that he wanted to ask Freud was if he thought it might be possible to guide the psychological development of humankind so that it became resistant to the psychoses of hate and destruction, thereby delivering civilisation from the hovering menace of war.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

You are not yet able to serve men, how can you serve spirits?

Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.

also want to deal with what emotional maturity really entails, and everything else about your emotions you should have learned when

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

At what age in a child's life does rage become sorrow?

You got good eyes, she said. Yes mam, he said. I always did. Well I guess so, she said. You dont normally start out with bad ones and they get better.

At what age in a child's life does rage become sorrow? I dont know. I dont think Piaget addresses the question. Or why. I think I know why. The injustice over which they are so distraught is irremediable. And rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief. At some point they get this.

Young people anymore they seem to have a hard time growin up. I dont know why. Maybe it's just that you dont grow up any faster than what you have to.

I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.

Not sure why. But you have to understand what the advent of language was like. The brain had done pretty well without it for quite a few million years. The arrival of language was like the invasion of a parasitic system. Co-opting those areas of the brain that were the least dedicated. The most susceptible to appropriation.