Quotes About Development

within, by its nature and structure and entelechy;

It implies a recognition by the individual that his life, liberty, and development depend upon social organization, and his willingness, in return, to adjust himself to the needs of the community.

Sumeria was to Babylonia, and Babylonia to Assyria, what Crete was to Greece, and Greece to Rome:

I dealt with so recklessly some years ago in my books Philosophy and the Social Problem (1917), The Story of Philosophy (1926), Transition (1927), The Mansions (or Pleasures) of Philosophy (1929), and On the Meaning of Life (1932). I know that life is in its basis a mystery; a river flowing from an unseen source and in its development an infinite subtlety; a "dome of many-colored glass," too complex for thought, much less for utterance.

Genius consists in this, that the knowing faculty has received a considerably greater development than the service of the will demands.

No es la raza la que crea la civilización, es la civilización la que crea el pueblo: las circunstancias geográficas, económicas y políticas crean una cultura, y la cultura crea un tipo humano.

we must not expect the world to improve much faster than ourselves

Competition is frequently praised as a great virtue to be developed by everyone. This is a costly misunderstanding, since human skills develop adequately only in cooperation, a condition of reinforcement. Competition always lies at cross-purposes with cooperation and thus frustrates individual human initiative.

our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.

Did you know there are more tax breaks for video game companies than for researchers pursuing medical developments or alternate fuels?

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Without Contraries is no Progression.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.

Nothing stands still. Things are either...

If there is progress then there is a novel.

Continuous economic and demographic growth has a way of turning abundance into scarcity.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too.

Civilization begins with distillation

Man the sum of his climatic experiences

If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town