Quotes About Development

Ideas shape the course of history.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

History is at once freedom and necessity.

American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

s past history and stand alone.

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

History's just one darn thing after another.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.